Bantama Adventist Senior High School, located in Kumasi, Ghana, is listed in the official Yearbook of the Seventh-day Adventist Church [1] and operates under the administration of the Mid-Central Ghana Conference. Every year Bantama Adventist Senior High School hosts the SRC Week celebration, which is organized by the Student Representative Council (SRC) to foster student engagement, unity, and collaboration within the institution. These events span one week and include a variety of activities such as cultural displays, talent shows, sports competitions, community outreach—and, regrettably, twerking. [2]
Twerking in a Seventh-day Adventist school program is a shameful disgrace and a brazen display of worldliness that misrepresents the sacred mission of our educational institutions and undermines the values we claim to uphold. This kind of sensual, vulgar dance is what takes place in nightclubs and dancehalls, but it has absolutely no place among a people who claim to be dedicated to training young people for God’s kingdom. It is a direct contradiction to the inspired counsel that calls us to purity and modesty.
The tragic reality is that far too many administrators have surrendered control to students to run programs unchecked. This is not leadership. Such leaders should be removed and replaced with men and women who are converted and are not unashamed to stand for truth, uphold God’s standards, preserve the integrity of Adventist education, and sometimes say “no.” If our schools are to be lights in a dark world, we must cast out the spirit of twerking, worldly music, and the nightclub attitude from among us to ensure that our schools remain faithful to the principles of heaven.
The Bible calls us to be holy and distinct from the world: “Be holy; for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). Lustful movements, sexually suggestive dancing, and repetitive hip movements and butt shaking are all part of the corrupt nightclub culture and feed the flesh, not the Spirit. Philippians 4:8 tells us to focus on what is pure, lovely, and of good report—twerking fits none of these categories. By allowing such behavior, administrators are complicit in harming, degrading, and corrupting their students. The counsel of Proverbs 22:6 commands parents, pastors, teachers, and administrators to “train up a child in the way he should go,” not in the ways of Babylon.
Sources
[1] https://www.adventistyearbook.org/entity?EntityID=20785
[2] https://youtu.be/FmZ4scIQX24?si=lhetaFhteLgB9NuC
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WOW….unbelievable
That’s what a drum beat like that does, makes you want to dance, as well as bypasses the reasoning power of your frontal lobe. I refuse to go to a church that has a drum. Watch Christian Berdahl’s “Distraction Dilemma”.