GPTG:
How do we know that "public reading of Scripture" is to be a separate action from the reading of Scripture that occurs during the message?
What are your thoughts about churches who do communion every week?
What does "liturgical" mean? (69)
I think we mentioned that thinking this way was kind of stupid, but could following the regulative principle ever instill legalism in someone's heart?
GW:
Top of page 54, "They are the greatest things that concern you here in this world, for they are the homage that you tender up to the high God, and those things wherein God communicates Himself in His choice mercies." What does this mean?
I thought the definition of the regulative principle on page 75 was very helpful. It defines it as "Nothing must be required as essential to public worship except that which is commanded by the word of God."
ReplyDeleteSo it says neither "you must do this" nor "you must not do that" but it simply says "you do not need to do that." So it frees us from concerns about human requirements that JB would call "superstitious."