PUTTING AN END TO WORSHIP WARS - Elmer Towns

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May all who use these hymns experience, at all times, the blessed effects of complying with the Apostle Paul's injunction (Eph. 5:18, 19), "Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." Yea, may they anticipate, while here below, though in a humble and imperfect strain, the song of the blessed above, who, being redeemed out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, and having washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, are standing before the throne, and singing in perfect harmony with the many angels about it (Rev. 5:9-12 and 7:9-14), "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing, for ever and ever. Amen!" Moravian Hymnal (1789) The true ideal of worship is that of man communing with God. G. Campbell Morgan Again, it is not a thing which man can decide, whether he will be a worshiper or not, a worshiper he must be, the only question is what will he worship? Every man worships - is born a worshipper. Frederick W. Robertson The best public worship is that which produces the best private Christianity. J. C. Ryle In the act of worship, God communicates His presence to His people. J. Oswald Sanders We evangelicals do not know much about worship. Evangelism is our specialty, not worship. We have little sense of the greatness of Almighty God. We tend to be cocky, flippant, and proud. And our worship services are often ill-prepared, slovenly, mechanical, perfunctory and dull. . . . Much of our public worship is ritual without reality, form without power, religion without God. John R. W. Stott To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. All this is gathered up in that emotion which cleanses us from selfishness because it is the most selfless of all emotions - adoration. William Temple
Worship is the exercise of the mind in the contemplation of God in which wonder and awe play an important part in stretching and enlarging our vision, or in opening up our conceptural forms to take in that which by its nature far outruns them. T. F. Torrance What is worship? Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the First Cause, but which we call Our Father Which Art in Heaven. A. W. Tozer The worship of God is nowhere defined in Scripture. A consideration of the above verbs shows that it is not confined to praise; broadly it may be regarded as the direct acknowledgement of God, of His nature, attributes, ways and claims, whether by the outgoing of the heart in praise and thanksgiving or by deed done in such acknowledgement. W. E. Vine The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. Alfred North Whitehead Worship is the believer's response of all that he is - mind, emotions, will, and body - to all that God is and says and does. This response has its mystical side in subjective experience, and its practical side in objective obedience to God's revealed truth. It is a loving response that is balanced by the fear of the Lord, and it is a deepening response as the believer comes to know God better. Warren W. Wiersbe
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PUTTING AN END TO WORSHIP WARS By E
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INTRODUCTION Since this is a book a
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True worship involves change and it
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under Martin Luther was a reformati
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these names represented a sect, an
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A similar variety of consumer optio
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SIX WORSHIP STYLES 1. The Evangelis
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The pastors told me they had not ch
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The Liturgical Church eagerly carri
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The average Christian knows about a
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So, let's learn what we need to kno
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young people from my church were co
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Dallas taught me to preach differen
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would not preach boring Pentecostal
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The third question I ask my student
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CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH TO DETERMINE
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that no man could count, from every
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outwardly committed to the process
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2. Church Planting. At the beginnin
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METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO WORSHIP How
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CHAPTER FOUR WORSHIP WARS The churc
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The pastor liked the Bible Expositi
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Whether people disagree because of
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that help them cope with their prob
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society is apparently retreating fr
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4. New worship forms have robbed th
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The ultimate question that some wou
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elationship with God we've been tal
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in evangelism are effective in maki
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soul-winning and reaching every ava
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have not been trained. Others fail
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While some expository preachers ten
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CHAPTER SEVEN THE RENEWAL CHURCH Ev
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demonstrated in that miracles are o
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most human needs can be met in a va
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musical instruments including piano
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ut the time is getting late. I thin
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pastor to emerge as a leader. Also,
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