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The development of American church music during the nineteenth century has important implications for the philosophy and practice of church music in the twentieth century and beyond. Indeed, “it would be difficult to overstate the impact that antebellum sacred music reforms had on subsequent musical developments in America, and many scholars identify this period as [...]
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 →Music philosophy is not a separation issue
of the same kind of level as heterodoxy or flagrant, known sin.
Probably one of the most common questions I’m asked is if I think differences over worship/music philosophy warrants separation. Here’s my attempt at an answer.
What do you mean by separation? I do [...]
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 [...]
Continue Reading →“A final general observation arising out of this period (The Second Great Awakening) has to do with the manner in which the unusual sense of the presence of God was recognized in the churches which experienced these revivals. It was not because men saw weeping multitudes, unrestrained noise and high excitement that they [...]
Continue Reading →At the end of Hebrews 12 we find a very instructive passage that describes New Testament worship. But in order to understand the point of this passage, we need to first understand the broader context in which it is found.
The purpose of the book of Hebrews is to warn Jewish [...]
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