Shall We Please God or (Certain Kinds of) People? or, The Regulative Principle of Worship (3)

Reformed believers and churches may not differ as to the fact and importance of the regulative principle of worship. As the preceding editorial demonstrated, the regulative principle is confessional. The importance of the regulative principle, according to the confessions, is nothing less than this, that it is the truth of the second commandment of the law. Difference among Reformed and Presbyterian Christians and churches has to do with the functioning of the principle in the worship service....