Adorez Adonai Dance Team

Dance of Worship

Worship is first and foremost a verb, an action. It is motivated by a desire to honor another. The bible includes a wide range of physical movement and expression in its images of worship, including bowing down, lifting hands, dancing, processions and singing. The meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words translated “worship” in English are for the most part movement words. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word most commonly used, “sahah”, means to bow self down. In the New Testament, the Greek word used most of the time, “proskyneo”, means to bow down or prostrate and to kiss.
Worship dance is not primarily for those lost in worship, or for those people capable of reaching that level of intimacy in God. It is for God. It is not enought that the singers bring their gifts, or that the musicians bring their gifts. If the dancers don’t bring theirs, the worship is incomplete. It would be like the wisee men bringing the gold and frankincense, but forgetting about the myrrh. It doesn’t have to be in every service. The gift just has to be offered. If never used in worship, then dance’s highest purpose – the worship of the King – is not being attained.
I know that the beautiful heart of the worshipping church is bowing down on the inside, but it’s not often coming through their physical bodies. The dancers can bring this aspect to the worship, so people are truly bowing before the King of Kings, lifting up holy hands, and dancing their worship with all their strenght. It is an offering that pleases the heart of God.