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How can we conserve biblical worship? We can conserve biblical worship by regulating our worship by God’s Word, by learning to distinguish between ordinate affection and appetite and choosing worship forms that foster those affections for God, by cultivating those worship forms that [...]
Continue Reading →Conservative Christians will be committed to worship forms that foster ordinate affection toward God.
Commitment to the Regulative Principles of Worship solves the question of what we will include in our corporate worship, but it doesn’t necessarily address how we will do it. Conservatives have always recognized that while the Bible clearly prescribes what elements [...]
Continue Reading →This from C.J. Mahaney in a discussion at the recent WorshipGod conference, talking about what he would see as an important qualification for someone to serve on a praise team.
This one sentiment illustrates a crucial difference in understanding about the nature of religious affections. It illustrates well points I have been [...]
Continue Reading →Timmy Brister posted an interesting article about how to order your service to reflect the gospel. He evidently hadn’t read Chapell’s book that makes that very point, yet.
But what was really interesting to me was a comment exchange under the post that illustrates exactly what [...]
Continue Reading →After considering the following theological and historical underpinnings of contemporary worship, consider the theological positions of those most influential in evangelical worship today.
From W. Robert Godfrey, “Worship and the Emotions,” in Give Praise to God, Philip Graham Ryken, et.al. (Phillipsburg: P & R Pub, 2003), 368-9:
When emotions are misused, there is [...]
Continue Reading →I have a feeling many contemporary evangelicals, could they time travel back to the Great Awakening, might scold churches during that time for not being “passionate about God” or “engaged”:
Edward Griffin, reviewing the whole period in 1832, wrote: ‘The means employed in these revivals have been but two, — the clear [...]
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