The Bridge: Worship and Culture (Indonesian)
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Freedom of Form
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 7 ( July 2025) Silence and Freedom It is an amazing fact that the New Testament is virtually silent on the matter of form for the church’s worship. D. A. Carson writes: “There is no single passage in the New Testament that establishes a paradigm for corporate worship.” (“Worship under the Word,” in Worship by the Book, 40) (Of course, this is in marked contrast
The Glory of God and the Fall
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 6 ( June 2025) The Downward Spiral The glory of God was at issue in the fall of man. In Romans 1 Paul explains the fall of Adam and Eve into sin: For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks to him (Romans 1:21a) Instead of taking their proper place in subjection to their Creator, Adam and Eve
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Jesus Ascended
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 5 ( May 2025) “The dust of the earth is on the throne of theMajesty on high.” (John Duncan) “Complementing the Incarnation in which the eternal God himself condescends to be one with us in our hurt and creaturely disintegration in order to redeem us from all evil and re-create us from within the ontological depths of our existence, and complementing the Passion and Resurrection
Eastertide
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 4 ( April 2025) Easter is not a day—it’s a season! The Great Fifty Days “Easter” is the period of eight Sundays [until Pentecost], comprising fifty days, often called as a unit “the Great Fifty Days.” For the explosive force of the resurrection of the Lord is too vast to be contained within a celebration of one day. The recovery of Easter as “the
