near to bless His people. Our desire for personal satisfaction never determines what is or is not acceptable public worship. But God often blesses acceptable public worship to the satisfaction of His people’s hearts. Reformed churches long for three things in the public worship of God. First, they long for the Word of God to be central. We see this in the right emphasis that Reformed churches have given to the reading and preaching of the Word of God in public worship. Why? Because it is there that
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