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Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Seven)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six From Whom Does God Accept Worship? The Necessity of a True Church, a Qualified Worshiper, and God’s Appointed Order 1. God Has Never Accepted Every Worship Offered to Him 2. God Accepts the Worshiper Before the Worship 3. […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Six)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five From Whom Does God Accept Worship? The Necessity of a True Church, a Qualified Worshiper, and God’s Appointed Order The assembled church is the New Testament (NT) temple, and its gathered praise is a unique priestly offering to God. A next […]
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 […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Two)
Part One The House of God “House of God” When Israel came to their temple to worship, they recognized that it was where God dwelt. The Old Testament (OT) already established it as the “house of God.” In the OT, the “house of God” (Beth Elohim or Beth YHWH) is not mainly a building or […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief?
When a pastor or church calls its meeting on Sunday morning or evening, “a worship service,” is that a biblical belief or practice? For years, I’ve called the assembling of our church “AM Worship” and “PM Worship.” Is that just a tradition? Is it the scriptural way to look at it? Recently, an online commentator […]
The Unscriptural Decline of Singing the Psalms in Churches
As I grew up in an independent Baptist church, not only did we not sing the psalms; I never heard of doing it. It never even occurred to me that a church should sing the psalms. I hate to report this. During my Bible college and seminary years, no one mentioned psalm singing. It was […]
Predominant Criteria for Worship That Distort and Corrupt Worship of God
Just to keep track of what’s going on here, I’ve got several series still ongoing. I wanted to remind you and perhaps assure you, that Lord-willing I will, definitely want to, finish these. Monday, I published the fourth in a series entitled, The Spectrum on Israel Accepted in the MAGA Movement (parts one, two, three, […]
God and His Gospel Preaching to Cain, Who Rejects It
Genesis 4 chronicles the beginnings for the first family after the fall of man into sin. The first couple of verses portray positives for the parents and their children. 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she […]
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