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The Fork in the Road: Things That Perish With Using

Robert Prater asked, Would you refute the view advocated by Ferguson and Hicks that the early church’s nonuse of IM is that instruments were a divinely prescribed part of temple worship that was superseded by the “higher worship instituted by … Continue reading

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The Fork in the Road: Learning from the History of Worship, Part 4

Abraham Now, harken back to Abraham. He offered sacrifices, including offering his only son. He walked in the very presence of God, talking with him face to face. And he was marked with a sign of his covenant with God. … Continue reading

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The Fork in the Road: Learning from the History of Worship, Part 3

Biblical origins of worship If we were entirely ignorant of the Patristics and the modern American church, we’d struggle to know how to worship based just on the New Testament. We’d see in the Old Testament where true worship only … Continue reading

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The Fork in the Road: Learning from the History of Worship, Part 2

Synagogue The Jews developed the synagogue sometime after Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the Temple and carried the Jews into Babylonian Captivity. No one knows whether it was then or after the return from exile that the synagogue was invented. In all likelihood, … Continue reading

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The Fork in the Road: Learning from the History of Worship, Part 1

It occurred to me the other day that our view of worship is largely defined by the Protestant Reformation, which reinvented the assembly in reaction to earlier Catholic practices. The Reformation theory was to return to a biblical understanding of … Continue reading

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The Fork in the Road: “Will Worship”

When we in the Churches of Christ disagree over how to conduct the Sunday assembly, at some point someone will inevitably accuse the other side of “will worship.” And will-worship is sin. The assumption is that “will worship” means worshiping … Continue reading

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Replanting a Church: A Comment Regarding Worship for the Readers to Respond to

I get emails — I read your 11/24 commentary about M.Smith concert.  Not as concerned about ‘bodily movement’ and clapping as about what is actually going on.  So, you believe these people are teaching one another and growing spiritually?  If … Continue reading

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Renewing Our Worship: The Love Feast

I get emails — Brother Guin, I have been researching the subject of the Love Feast of Jude, mentioned by Peter and corrected by Paul. I see in the scriptures what you discuss in your article. I have concluded long … Continue reading

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Instrumental Music: A Parallel Argument

I get emails — One of the most popular arguments against instrumental music is that “the only thing that instruments have brought to worship” is division.  The person I’m discussing this with has 4 points, and I know that Corbitt … Continue reading

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Sex, the Church, and Miss California: Worship and Sex

We must be a community that … worships in a way that orders desires towards God and away from narcissism (feel-good pep-rallies), for any other kind of worship cannot train us out of our narcissistic obsessions with sex. I admit … Continue reading

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