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 Some worship in church. Some worship outside. Some worship at home. A handful of Texan women worship on a stripper pole.

 Pole Fitness for Jesus, a class created by ex-stripper Crystal Deans, provides church-going women in Old Town Spring, Texas., a new place of worship.

 If you want to get “closer to God,” as ABC13’s website puts it, pray and worship in a different setting. Not everyone’s relationship with their deity is within a temple, but don’t say it is dancing on a pole either.

 “God gives us these bodies and they are suppose to be our temples and we are suppose to take care of them and that’s what we are doing,” Deans justifies.
 While pole dancing is a good form of exercise, it is not a good way to worship.

 Pole dancing often links with sex. Are you trying to seduce God? This definitely takes loving Him to a whole other level.

 “I do feel a spiritual connection whenever you have the music on and it’s singing about lifting you up and being closer to God,” Tiffany Booth, a student, said. “You do feel that.”

 Sing at home or church. Heck, sing in your car if you want; but singing while dancing around a pole cannot strengthen your spiritual bond.

 Pole dancing has transcended from strip clubs. People now use it to tone their upper bodies and legs or relieve stress. And, of course, the sexual aspect lingers.

 If this activity appeals to you, great. If you enjoy it, wonderful. If doing it to Christian music tickles your fancy, okay.

 However, it cannot serve as a form of worship.

 In this class, you are dancing to strengthen your body, not your soul.

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