Soothing Ourselves to Death

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Biblical Theology of Worship & Its Implications for Worship in the NT

by Church of the Savior, Worship Commission

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quote from Donald Hustad book, "Jubilate II", p. 113

"These then should be the standards of any church's worship order, when used over a period of time:

1.It will contain full theology-truth about God, God's actions, and God's promises.

2. It will give opportunity for full human response, in adoration, thanksgiving, confession and commitment, petition, and expectation.

3. It will use human language that is up-to-date (not archaic), and yet reverent, since God is a partner in the conversation.  to satisfy the needs of corporate expression, such language also will be poetic enough to stimulate the imagination and yet must be commonly understood.

All worship leaders must maintain a constant, creative tension between the need for an established worship order and the need for freedom to add (or substitute) actions and words that are spontaneous in response to the moving of God's Spirit."

This document was adopted as part of the music and worship philosophies of Faith Baptist Church by the pastors and deacons July 10, 2003.  For a more extended discussion on music and worship issues, please refer to Pastor Viars’ Summer 2003 Worship series and our other documents entitled “Corporate Music and Worship Philosophy,” and “Discussion of Music and Worship Issues.”

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First Things-Tragic Worship

by Carl R. Trueman

June/July 2013

"Tragedy as a form of art and of entertainment highlighted death, and death is central to true Christian worship."

"Perhaps it is ironic, but the church that confronts people with the reality of the shortness of life lived under the shadow of death prepares them for resurrection better than the church that goes straight to resurrection triumphalism without that awkward mortality bit."

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