What belongs in a church service?
Related to the idea of culture: How are we to decide what belongs in a church service and what does not? How much variation is service styles is OK? Did God intend that we only include in this service what scripture expressly teaches or demonstrates? Alternatively, did He intend that we include anything that is not expressly prohibited by scripture? Something in between?
posted by Josh | 9:40 PM
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A couple years ago I wrote a series on my blog - http://63fruit3.blogspot.com/ - evaluating a church I visited in Texas with a U2-themed service, and I tried to address a bit of this "what belongs in a church service" question in that series. Some good on-line articles on this are http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/articles/article_detail.php?418 and http://www.reformedprescambridge.com/articles/Regulative_Principle.html and http://www.modernreformation.org/default.php?page=articledisplay&var1=ArtRead&var2=479&var3=issuedisplay&var4=IssRead&var5=49
We had a couple of guys ask (actually announce) that they were bringing a bunch of music teams together from various "churches" to have a worship fest. Just to hear each group play and to enjoy the event. When asked about who would bring the Word, they said that they couldn't do that because it would just muddy the water. That's not worship.
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