What I find interesting are the terms 'decenly' and 'in order'. First off, these girls are decent (certainly not nearly naked) since their costumes are quite large and covered. They wear tights, coulottes, a skirt that is so full that it can lay down in a full circle on teh floor and tops that go from the neck down into the skirt and covers the arms completely. As I posted in an earlier post, there is a photo of my 16 year old worshipping (Spinach, I think you can see that). So they are decent.
As for the 'in order', these girls train for many hours, many months and in some cases (as my daughters) many years learning patterns, Scripture for each pattern, how to do the movements smoothly and gracefully. They are able to do the patterns without thinking about what to do and are able to fully engage their minds and hearts into the worship of the Lord. When I see them, I get a glimpse of the glory of what true worship must have been like in the Old Testament where they did not have the societal restrictions that we find today. As others have pointed out, David danced before the Lord. These girls are not wildly thrashing around nor doing anything inappropriate but instead are moving gracefully and purposefully to worship God.
I know that there are those who do not believe even lifting hands in church is appropriate. However, that's not a Biblical decision but a personal one. I've been to some of the black churches around the area and in those, people are much more physically demonstrative and I find it a great blessing - to see those who are so focused on God that they don't worry that if they get on their knees, or stand up and "dance" in their seats, or whatever is going to embarrass them. I honestly don't think we're going to get to heaven and stand like stone statues in worshipping God. I think He's going to get a bit more worship than that.
