In the wake of eighteenth-century Enlightenment and nineteenth-century revivalism, evangelical Christianity evidenced two distinct philosophies of worship. The first was the conservative philosophy that generally… Read More »Roots of Evangelical Worship: Two Worship Philosophies
Kevin T. Bauder [This essay was originally published on February 27, 2009.] Conservative Christians recognize that they have received a doctrinal and moral patrimony. They… Read More »Conservative Christianity: The Rejection of Crisis
Many conservative evangelical and even fundamentalist churches today have transformed the Christian faith into a kind of pop-culture version of The Way. This change began… Read More »Intensely audience-conscious and market-driven
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… Read More »Three Cultural Streams in 19th-Century American Church Music
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… Read More »How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Part 3
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… Read More »Is Music a Separation Issue?
“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… Read More »An Observation Today's Pastors Would Do Well To Hear
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… Read More »Worship That Cannot Be Touched – Hebrews 12:18-29