CE Flashcards
Deriving from a standard
You are free to worship God as you will.
“If not prohibited, it is permitted.”
Examples: Golden Calf, Exodus 32; Nadab and
Abihu, Leviticus 10:1-3; Uzzah, 2 Samuel 6:6-7.
Normative Principle of Worship
Controlled by rules and regulations.
You are to worship God accordingly.
“If not permitted, it is prohibited.”
Examples: Tabernacle, Exodus 25:40; Worship God Alone,
Exodus 20:2-6; Obedience > Sacrifice, 1 Samuel 15:22;
Orderly Worship, 1 Corinthians 14:26-40.
Belgic Confession Art. 7; Heidelberg Catechism QA96;
Belgic Confession Art 32.
Regulative Principle of Worship
Worship
Covenantal and Conversational
“God disapproves of all modes of worship not expressly sanctioned by his Word.”
John Calvin, “The Necessity of Reforming the Church”
“When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and
dwell in their land, take care that you be not ensnared to follow them after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? —that I also may do the same.’ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.”
2nd Reading of God’s Covenant, Deuteronomy
12:29-32, Warning Against Idolatrous Worship
What then, brothers?
When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation.
Let all things be done for
building up… But all things should be done decently and in order.
New Covenant, Orderly Worship, 1 Corinthians 14:26-40
But the hour is coming and is now here when the
true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:23-24, God Seeks to be worshiped in Spirit and Truth
Normative Principle of Worship Verses
Golden Calf, Exodus 32; Nadab and Abihu, Leviticus 10:1-3; Uzzah, 2 Samuel 6:6-7
Regulative Principle of Worship Verses
Tabernacle, Exodus 25:40; Worship God Alone,
Exodus 20:2-6; Obedience > Sacrifice, 1 Samuel 15:22;
Orderly Worship, 1 Corinthians 14:26-40
Belgic Confession Art. 7; Heidelberg Catechism QA96; Belgic Confession Art 32.