Hi Jamie, I'm an atheist so take anything I say with a heavy grain of skepticism....

I too love music and when I listen to particularly great music I tend to move to it as well.. Whether it's a tap of my foot or bebopping head movement while listening via ipod, moving upper body when seated, or standing up to do the wave thing at a more public outdoor concert. When driving down the freeway to especially great road trip music, I  play drum on the steering wheel and sing along too... People driving next to me may think me rather odd... LOL! 

Because some folk may find this rather distracting, I avoid listening to music at work related events. Not so sure work etiquette applies to church or other fellowship etiquette, however.... there's more to this than manners.

I'm surprised swaying to music in church should be such considered a bad thing, I mean I would think the church pianist would be rather flattered that people are moved by her music.... obviously the denomination you belong to isn't one of those odd pups who think music and dance are evil. If you like to move to music and others find it disconcerting, who should blink first? If a few people are mildly disturbed, perhaps a little tolerance on their part is warranted.

Interesting the way they put it to you... I'm always a little wary of "mandatory volunteerism" if you know what I mean and honestly, if the only gripe is a little swaying in church it all seems rather..... petty.

I suppose it comes down to how comfortable you are in this church, if it weren't for this one situation. Do you enjoy interaction with other members, do you feel you are learning and growing by attending this particular church, do you feel valued, do you feel you are demonstrating respect and worship for your god by attending this church, best of all how is the FOOD and fellowship otherwise?

Good luck and kind regards,

AS

You're welcome. May not hurt to hear what Christians have to say about this as well since their experiences are likely to be more similar. There are Christian only forums in the Community section --- Or

There's a multi-faith forum....

or the somewhat contentious Discuss Christianity forum as well. The latter is a forum to debate Christianity, with Christians and non-Christians debating about the merits (or lack) of Christianity. It can be rather contentious,  but it's fairly busy board which would provide the benefit of a larger pool of people to draw upon.