PUTTING AN END TO WORSHIP WARS - Elmer Towns

HOMOGENEOUS UNITS/GROUPS
A group of people with a similar social trademark, which necessarily bonds them
together as a whole.
INSTRUMENT OF REGENERATION
The Scriptures are the instrument of regeneration, i.e. the tool used by the Holy Spirit to
produce new life in the believer.
LITURGICAL CHURCH
A unique worship style paradigm for church ministry which seeks to draw from a rich
tradition of historic expressions of worship including ancient hymns, creeds and prayers. Liturgy
comes from latrevo which means "to serve or minister." In a liturgical church God is the center
of worship and worshippers minister to Him, not primarily themselves. Liturgical churches are
most often found among the main-line Protestant denominations.
PEOPLE MOVEMENT
Results from the joint decision of a number of individuals all from the same people
group, which enable(s) them to become Christian without social dislocation, while remaining in
full contact with their non-Christian relatives, thus enabling other segments of that people group,
across the years, to come to similar decisions and form Christian churches made up primarily of
members of that people group.
PROPHECY, GIFT OF
Prophecy is communicating and applying biblical truth to a specific situation or
circumstance. An individual "speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men" (1 Cor.
14:3) through exercising this gift. Also, this area of giftedness appears to involve some measure
of the enabling gift of faith (Rom. 12:6). Those gifted in this area are usually able to discern
problems and apply appropriate biblical principles to help alleviate the problems.
RECEPTIVE PEOPLE
Those who are positive toward the gospel message as a result of social dislocation,
personal crisis, or internal working of the Holy Spirit. They are open to hearing and obeying the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
REDEMPTION AND LIFT
A phenomenon which occurs when a person or group becomes a Christian and thereby is
lifted out of their former environment and separated from it in social and economic respects.
This causes a gap between the new Christian and their unsaved friends.