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Article: Urging a return to `God-centered' worship.
- Article from:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2004
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Byline: Jim Remsen
You love the Lord. You go to church weekly and pour out your heart to him in worship. He is pleased, right?
Maybe and maybe not, John Calvin would caution.
"God disapproves of all modes of worship not expressly sanctioned by His word," the 16th-century pillar of the Protestant Reformation once wrote.
Calvin is one of many Christian luminaries quoted in "Give Praise to God: A Vision for Reforming Worship," a book of essays recently released by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. But the ultimate authority the book cites for its worship model is the Bible itself.
The Philadelphia-based national alliance ...