For many believers, the first questions that arise in discussions about worship concern style: “What kind of music does your church have? Do you sing old hymns or contemporary praise songs?” But this is to put the cart before the horse, for the style of a church’s worship is (knowingly or not) largely determined by its ideas about the nature of that worship and about the God who is its focus. In other words, before we can answer the question about what worship looks like, we must discover what worship
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