How does the Prophetic Dance & Creative Arts "fit" into regular Sunday Worship?

The Creative Arts, Dance and Prophecy is the kind of phrase that will either catch your attention or irk you up the wrong way making you roll your eyeballs to the ceiling. You know what I mean, right? Anyway regardless of your reaction, this subject needs to be addressed in these current times. Confusion, sometimes resulting in division, has worked itself stealthily into the church because many do not know how to fit this ‘new wine’ into the order of worship. Nor do they know how to explain this ‘move of God’ to the ‘old guards’. While some leaders are trying to be diplomatic, understanding, tolerating, and even accommodating, others outright reject this whole ‘prophetic pandemonium thing’ ignoring it long enough, hoping it will all dissipate. Concerning prophecy, I personally think that too much attention has been placed on the method of delivery and we miss what God is trying to say. Besides, He is a creative God and He can do whatever He pleases, use whomever He pleases and choose whichever method of delivery He pleases. Pause for a moment and focus on God, the Creator of the whole universe; the Heavenly Father; the Almighty One wanting to speak to us! Trust me, the method of delivery will not only be overshadowed, it will be of no importance. When we have leaders who spend literally hours discussing whether the congregation should stand or sit when singing a certain song, I shrink at the thought of them trying to decide how God’s message ie: prophecy should be delivered. Many have asked if prophetic dance is necessary and my reply always has been “No.” It is not necessary; however, if God wants to deliver His message through the creative arts, I won’t argue with that either. If we can accept that dance is an international language that crosses the barriers of the very limiting verbal languages, then why is it hard for us to accept that God can, has been, and will continue to use this form of media to communicate? (Refer to chapter 2 for a more in-depth discussion) If you have a dance ministry in your church, it is inevitable that someone in the group will have this ‘nudging’ from the Holy One to dance prophetically. Is this not one of the reasons why you have a dance team, to train them to be sensitive to God and to do His bidding? Yes, I agree that they need to be taught the Word of God and I do hope that this is the foundation of all ministries. I also hope that the dance team in your church was not started just for ‘entertainment’ purposes, to do a special item every now and then to keep the ‘art-see’ people in your church happy so that you can keep their tithes. If your dance ministry was started with solid teaching, they will mature to desire to be used of God and it could be releasing a prophetic dance when He says so. This, by the way, is not limited to the dance ministry alone. It can happen in other ministries too. For example, one or two out of all the singers on the worship team will probably be led to prophesy. The Holy Spirit may use one or two instruments out of the whole band of musicians to release a prophetic sound. One or more in a prophetic team might get the mind of the Lord concerning the ‘happenings’ in the year to come. The point is that God can release prophecy through various forms and means, and so all ministries in the church need to be geared and ready to function prophetically in their specific roles. God has already set an example in that He did not just verbalize His intentions for His plan of salvation for us to return to Him, He demonstrated His message in The Divine Drama – His greatest prophetic act.


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