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The dethroning of the Church by Reason and the creation of pop culture left the Church in an awkward position. Its cultural influence was non-existent. As the culture around it plunged into sanitized paganism, the Church’s traditional forms became foreign. The Church was in Babylon, yet it was free to worship as it pleased. So [...]
Continue Reading →This far in our journey we have witnessed an almost unbroken stream of Judeo-Christian tradition. From King David to Lutheran composer Johann Crüger (1598-1662) we find a slow and steady cultivation of poetic and musical forms. There were certainly bumps in the road and many changes along the way, yet for around 1800 years the quality [...]
Continue Reading →Conservative Christians will be committed to transmitting these worship forms to future generations.
This leads to my final point of discussion. If our goal as conservative Christians is to conserve biblical worship and continue to cultivate worship forms that best foster ordinate affection for God, then we must be committed to transmitting these worship forms [...]
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 →Terry Mattingly outlines a brief history of “McChurch.” Notice especially the connections he makes with the music of McChurch, and especially where it started. (HT)
Continue Reading →John Piper offers some excellent counsel regarded how we should view TV and movies and whether we need to immerse ourselves in pop culture in order to contextualize.
I think relevance in preaching hangs very little on watching movies, and I think that much exposure to sensuality, banality, and God-absent entertainment does [...]
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