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corporate worship

Hymns vs. Choruses: Are the Worship Wars Worth Fighting?

April 20, 2018 by Randal

This article is based on a section from my book What’s So Confusing About Grace? In a 1960 interview on Meet the Press, Martin Luther King, Jr. famously observed, “It is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that 11 o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: church, consumerism, corporate worship, ecclesiology, What's So Confusing About Grace?, worship wars

On reading (and singing) the prayers of others

November 19, 2015 by Randal

I grew up in the Pentecostal tradition in which we prided ourselves on being “led by the Spirit” to pray extemporaneously (i.e. off the cuff). Consequently, we viewed those “liturgists” who read prayers out of a book as spiritually suspect at best. The idea of reading a prayer, especially a prayer written by somebody else, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: corporate worship, liturgy, prayer

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