| November 14, 2003 Wheaton College, rules made and followed by a bunch of slaves (click to read) --It’s funny; most people think the Pharisees are only a small group of individuals that happened to live during the time of some guy named Jesus Christ. Well they’re pretty prevalent today, although they go by different names. For the past 143 years, Wheaton College (by name a Christian college, by obvious practice a Pharisaical brood) has stuck out they’re “holier than thou” asses in front of the world, meanwhile pounding, spitting, and cursing the name of Jesus and all that he represents internally. Dancing bans!?!?!? Are you freaking kidding me?!?! Do they even read the Bible up there!?!? Do they even know about a guy named David that danced his butt off for the Lord?!?!? And that David’s zeal for him pleased him more than anything?!?!? Don’t they know acceptance of Christ’s grace results in a huge urge to dance!?!? People, it doesn’t matter whether you’re getting jiggy with it or programming in C++, if you’re doing it because you love life, and love Christ, LET NO MAN/WOMEN, DECREE, FREAKING LAW/BAN, stop you from praising the Lord in your own way. Woe to the people at Wheaton that conjured this ban from Hell, and woe to any individual who succumbed to its transparent pride-induced, ego-festering, satanic incantation of a ban. Apparently some people up there have grown a backbone and actually had the courage to say you know what that’s not right and that goes against everything Christ came for. He came to set the sinner free, not hold them captive to laws that only manifest man’s and woman’s imperfection and subsequent need for only Christ's grace. (let’s not ignorantly get confused with the type of dancing I’ve been referring to this whole article. You know exactly what I mean and what I don’t mean. Grinding and orgy dancing (ala Matrix Reloaded) is not what I’m condoning or talking about. Come on people, we got more depth than that...at least I hope so) It’s place like Wheaton College that give Christianity a crappy name. Luckily my faith isn’t based in Wheaton College, or the denomination they belong to. Luckily my faith isn’t based in some big church with pretty steeples and shiny arches. Luckily my faith isn’t based in rote prayers, or obligated charity. Thank God, thank my God that my faith is based in and only in Jesus Christ, a man that lived in Palestine about 2000 years ago, died at one point, and then three days later made death look as bad as the Arizona Cardinals. Thank God my faith is based in direct, everyday, loving, impossibly intimate connection to him and thank God it’s not based in any mere sinful mortal, rusting church, or any fair-weather doctrine. Thank God... So go ahead and dance Wheaton College. Sure, there’s always room for improvement and I commend you for finally getting some balls; but rest assured, the cat is out, and you’re human origins have been exposed as fraud. Well at least your founders and all the people that were too wussy to stand up to them. You don’t get to heaven on a stairway of holiness and a ladder of Goodytooshoeism, you get to it through a dark, dirty alley on your knees, across your tears, and upon your cries for help... So by all means, dance away kids!! Dance down the streets, dance in your houses, and dance in your churches! Dance like you’ve never danced before!! For we once were lost and dead in our self-righteousness, but now are found and alive in Christ’s-righteousness.....and I don’t know about you, but that deserves some major celebration, and dancing fits that bill nicely :) “You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy” Psalm 30:11 “Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp.” Psalm 149:3 “praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute” Psalm 150:4 Now that’s what I’m talking about Dave. That’s what I’m talking about!!! I will play my guitar and dance to my Lord like nobody’s business. And when I’m alone, that’s when I really get jiggy with it :) “For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate.” Luke 15:24 |