SCRIPTURAL WORSHIP
Traditional or contemporary? If you know what that question means, you’re aware that the culture wars of our times have pushed their way into the church so that some believers think the future success and survival of the church depends on compromising with the ever-changing (and yet somehow always staying the same) culture of the world. One of these ways has been the “worship wars” of the last few decades. For what it’s worth, I completely disagree with the compromisers and adapters. It’s a little complex, but the opposite is closer to the truth. The future success and survival of the church doesn’t depend on compromising with worldliness in any way. Scripture calls us to be separate from the world (2 Cor 6:14–18). Church worship is as it should be when it is Scriptural. Church leaders ought not to ask world leaders for advice about anything. We should all look to the Bible, especially the New Testament, to tell us what God is looking for in Christian worship. This doesn’t mean th...