Reformed view of worship, some view it as a solely Puritan principle: characteristic of north European culture, invented by seventeenth-century scholastic theologians, narrower than Calvin’s approach, and not embraced elsewhere in the best of catholic Christianity.6 But I want to suggest that the main reason why many evangelicals have a hard time embracing the regulative principle is that they do not believe that God tells us (or tells us much about) how to worship corporately in his Word. Evangelicals
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