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Worship: The Regulative Principle and the Biblical Practice of Accommodation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Ernest Reisinger and D. Matthew Allen define, explain, and defend the Reformed principle of worship—the regulative principle. Not leaving the principle in the realm of theory, Reisinger and Allen discuss the application of the principle in the context of modern evangelical life—paying particular attention to how to implement the regulative principle in congregations who do not yet...

Using the language of caricature, he dramatically emphasized that the entire world is his anyway. To the contrary, the essence of worship was not in the sacrifices at all, but in thanksgiving, in paying vows to God, in acknowledged dependence on him, and in honoring him (Ps. 50:14–15). The sacrificial system was simply “an avenue through which the worship and thanksgiving of the covenant people could be directed to God.70 The covenant was the heart of worship. Keil and Delitzsch have commented on
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