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worship wars

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

In Christ Alone and the Interesting Worship Wars

February 8, 2018 by Randal

The term “Worship Wars” typically refers to a battle over musical styles: Hymns vs. choruses: drums and guitar vs. organ and choir, etc. I am not particularly interested in that debate. (You can see my attempt to contextualize it in this article.) To my mind, the far more interesting worship wars are those that are […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, In Christ Alone, penal substitution, worship wars

What’s splitting your church? Worship music or genocide?

December 11, 2011 by Randal

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35 Suburban North American Church As everybody rose to sing Al stayed seated in the pew, arms crossed defiantly. He never stood during the choruses. Driving drums, distorted guitar and vacuous lyrics. “They make it sound like Jesus is […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: church, ecclesiology, genocide, Rwanda, worship wars

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