Worship Wars
The Regulative Principle: A Baptist Doctrine
Jeff Robinson, PhD
God is being worshiped in new and inventive ways in Baptist churches these days. Yet, many Baptist churches are suffering from the same peculiarly Americanized form of worship common to contemporary churches. Is this a good thing?
The Regulative Principle of Worship is a Biblical Doctrine
Jeff Robinson, PhD
Jeff Robinson writes, “I argued that the regulative principle of worship is a Baptist doctrine. But any Baptist worth his or her salt will ask the more salient question: But is it a biblical doctrine?”
The First Worship War Among Baptists and the Reformation of Congregational Singing
Jeff Robinson, PhD
The first worship war among Baptists—now known by historians simply as “the hymn-singing controversy”—took nearly twenty years to reach full boil at the Horsleydown Baptist church in London.
The First Worship War Among Baptists, Part 2
Jeff Robinson, PhD
Part 2 of a three-part series on the late-17th century controversy over the propriety of singing hymns within congregational worship, a debate the two principles of which were Benjamin Keach and Isaac Marlow
Keach and Hymn Singing: The First Worship War Among Baptists, Part 3
Jeff Robinson, PhD
Keach believed that the “want of God’s presence” in the churches was in part due to “the neglect of this great duty” of corporate singing. In recovering the ordinance, he clearly saw himself as furthering the Reformation with Sola Scriptura as the organic principle of his doctrine of corporate worship.
Where Circus and Church Meet: A Plea for the Recovery of Sola Scriptura in Worship
Jeff Robinson, PhD
Scripture is the church’s sole authority, yet it is it’s sufficiency in matters of worship and church life that seems to have been rejected, at least in practice, by modern day Baptists.
What We Lost When We Left Classic Worship and Ministry Behind
Kent E. Sweatman, PhD
Worship is at the very center of what we do as a church. At some point, the evangelical church as a whole began to move away from what we call “classic” worship, which included the singing of hymns accompanied by a piano, organ or some other simple instrument, to “contemporary” worship, which includes praise teams, rock bands, simple choruses and other components.
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