Section 2 – When The Church Gathers
Chapter 6 – Understanding the Regulative Principle
Allowing Scripture alone to evaluate and structure our corporate worship gatherings.
The Regulative Principle
Regulative Principle – everything we do in a corporate worship gathering must be clearly warranted by Scripture. Clear warrant can either take the form of an explicit biblical command, or a good and necessary implication of a biblical text.
The Regulative Principle forbids anything not commanded by Scripture, whereas the Normative Principle allows anything not forbidden by Scripture.
Worship is the Purpose of Redemption
“Corporate worship is too central to God’s purpose in redemption for Him to leave the specifics of it to the likes of us.”
God Cares How People Worship in the Old Testament
Exodus 20:4; 32:1-10
God Cares How People Worship in the New Testament
John 4:19-24; 1 Cor. 14
Think Tank:
Read Leviticus 10:1-3. What was it that made God angry according to the text?
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