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Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Fourteen)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven Part Twelve Part Thirteen Positively, being pragmatic means useful, worthwhile, instructive, workable, or successful in its pursuit. In the negative sense, […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Thirteen)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven Part Twelve Distinguishing Jubal and Endtime Babylon from Temple and Church Worship Scripture shows a progression in music. In Genesis 4:21, Jubal […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Twelve)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven Thomas Jefferson’s phrase “these truths are self-evident” is not itself a doctrine of natural revelation or a theory of aesthetics. It does rest, […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Eleven)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten Even though music itself is not words, this does not mean it is morally or theologically empty or neutral. In a major way, modern so-called worship […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Nine)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Biblical worship should be reverent, joyful, solemn, heartfelt, sincere, spiritually alive, orderly, truthful, and God-centered. Psalm 95 says both “O come, let us sing unto the LORD” (v. 1) and “O come, […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Romans 12:1 plainly teaches that the believer’s whole life is worship: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. The living sacrifice is perpetual worship. […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Four)
Part One Part Two Part Three Congregational Singing as Worship: Its Primary Purpose Is God Rather Than Man The New Testament (NT) church does not abandon Old Testament (OT) worship but fulfills it. Christ did fulfill the priesthood, the sacrifices, the tabernacle, and the covenant, yet He did not abolish worship itself. Rather, […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Three)
Part One Part Two How should singing and playing in the church be understood? Does sacred music somehow become less worship under the New Covenant than it was under the Old? Has God transformed what was once a priestly offering into a merely educational exercise? Has congregational praise lost its sacrificial character simply because […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue (Part Three)
Part One Part Two Scripture shows worldliness as a gospel issue. When someone repents, he leaves the world system for a heavenly one. When salvation presents itself to someone, a worldly heart, which cares more about the accoutrements of this present world than the realities of the next one, the one of God, the […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue
What Is “The World”? Biblical Christianity, the only Christianity, is in complete incongruity with the “world,” what scripture shows is the world system or the spirit of the age. BDAG, the foremost lexicon of the New Testament, defines the Greek word translated “world,” kosmos, based upon its usage in all ancient Greek literature: “the sum […]
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