Notes on Musical Instruments in Worship

Views: 89[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The most often asked question about our belief and practice concerns this issue. This subject relates to our acceptable worship of God. Some in the church now discount the importance…

Building Up the Church Through Singing

Views: 5[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction Many characteristics distinguish mankind from all the lower forms of animal life. Among the most notable of these peculiarities are the size and capability of the human brain (which makes us…

What Is a “Change Agent”?

Views: 255[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction The term, change agent, has been in use at least since 1947 in social psychology circles in reference to those whose task it is to facilitate change in organizations. Lynn…

Some Thoughts on Worship “Etiquette”

Views: 176[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Acceptable worship must be God-centered, rather than man-centered. For failure to understand or remember this fact, many are introducing strange practices into worship assemblies because these things please and excite…

“Unscriptural?”

Views: 86[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] I was once handed the following quotation with the request that I comment on it: As I drove along the highway one Sunday morning, I came to a church house…

Involvement in Worship

Views: 81[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] In recent years there has been considerable discussion among brethren about getting more people “involved” in worship. No one will question that every Christian must involve himself in worship. I…

Good Worship Manners

Views: 64 [Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] The God we worship in our assemblies is not a God of confusion, but One who wants everything done decently and in order (1 Cor. 14:33; 40). Perhaps with a…

“Liberalism” and “Anti-ism”—Two Erroneous Extremes

Views: 278[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction History reveals that men are susceptible to extremes in almost every arena of thought and behavior. This is no more clearly demonstrable than in the field of religion. A classic illustration…