Shall We Please God or (Certain Kinds of) People? or, the Regulative Principle of Worship (4)

In the April 15, 2000 issue of this magazine, I began the treatment of the regulative principle of worship that concludes in this issue. That opening article explained the regulative principle and contrasted it with the lawlessness of contemporary, "progressive" worship. The editorial in the May 1 Standard Bearer continued the treatment by demonstrating that the regulative principle is biblical, as well as confessionally and traditionally Reformed. The May 15 editorial distinguished between...