Principles of Worship Change

Biblical vs. Cultural, Church, Traditional/Contemporary Debate

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 17, No. 1 (January 2022) The “worship reformation” of recent years has led many churches to make changes in their worship styles and practices. That is no small matter, and the way is full of potholes and pitfalls. Therefore, how we go about it (if at all) may be more important (and say more about us) than the results. Here are some suggested principles to help guide

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Tapescrew on Worship (4)

Biblical vs. Cultural, Centrality of Worship, Culture, Traditional/Contemporary Debate, Worship Wars

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 8 (August 2020) Once again with apologies to C.S. Lewis and his Screwtape Letters, here is one more letter from Screwtape’s relative Tapescrew, writing to his own nephew Woodworm and speaking to issues facing worship in our churches today. __________________ My dear Woodworm, It is delightful to see what havoc we have caused around the world by perverting, of all things, the worship of the

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The Challenges of Worship in the Church

Biblical vs. Cultural, Church, Culture, Traditional/Contemporary Debate, Worship Wars

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 2 (February 2020) An enduring question underlying most of our debates, discussions and dissensions about worship is: How can we be biblically faithful in our worship,and yet culturally relevant in our own particular setting? Two issues in particular make this question difficult to answer: CHALLENGE ONE: The virtual silence of the New Testament The startling truth is that the pages of the New Testament contain

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Worship Leading from the Heart

Traditional/Contemporary Debate, Worship Leading

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 2 (February 2019) A PARABLE This parable to was told to certain ones who trusted in themselves that their worship style was the only acceptable form: “Four men went up in to the temple to pray, two traditional music directors and two contemporary worship leaders. One of the music directors stood and was praying thus to himself, ‘God, I thank Thee that I am not

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