In extra-ordinary circumstances where a sacrament may not be performed in the exact way that Christ prescribed, ought a church to forego the sacrament (or that part of it) or ought principled accommodations be made which keep the essential, spiritual principles of the sacrament?
In the...
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Anyone who reads the book of Acts will be struck with how simple that standard of apostolic worship was. The more simple the worship is, the more spiritual it will be shown to be, when persons have nothing else to cling to in it but the Word of God laid bare, in the praying, the singing, the...
Most presbyterian, congregationalist and baptist churches from the Reformation till around the late-1800's did not use musical instruments in worship, on principle.
Wonder why? It was due to a close application of the Regulative Principle of Worship, that we are only to worship in the way that...