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A Principle for Freedom in Worship The word "regulative" sounds frightening and imperialistic to people today. Nobody wants to be regulated. We like to exist without regulation. People often look at the regulative principle of worship as hampering freedom, but that is not the case at all. In fact
No one should suppose that this stand implies blanket rejection of hymns. With the Psalms, we sing good hymns in our homes, in our choral societies and programs, and in our schools. Yes, also in our schools. We expect that the schools will teach the children to love and sing the Psalms. The Psalms s
The Calvinists, on the other hand, held to what is called 'The Regulative Principle of Worship.' That regulative principle says, 'We worship God only as He has commanded us in His Word.' For that reason, the worship services of Reformed churches historically have been limited to prayer, singing, sac
Previous article in this series: April 15, 2012, p. 326. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. Jeremiah 7:31 What doth God require in
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,
Who wants to be regulated? But what we need to see is that the regulative principle of worship does not hinder our freedom, but it protects and maintains our freedom. Because what the regulative principle of worship does is this, it protects us so that we are not bound, we're not forced in chur
This principle states that God is the one who sets forth in His Word how He will be worshipped by His church in public worship. Prof. David Engelsma defines the regulative principle as follows: God regulates worship by clearly prescribing in his Word what his worship must consist of. God himself te
This is the difference between the Lutheran and the Calvinistic branches of the Reformation. Followers of Luther, when reforming the extravagance of the Roman Catholic Church, held to the position that whatever was not explicitly forbidden in the Bible was permissible in church. For that reason, the