Thus Marshall insists that although there are other elements in church meetings, the primary element needs to be seen as being from God to man. Viewing meetings as being primarily about God speaking with and dealing with human beings is why he regards the use of terms like ‘worship’ and ‘service’ as being so misleading. Normally those terms imply that we are meeting in order to offer something to God. He would therefore prefer that the terms ‘church meeting’ or ‘assembly’ be used. These words allow