Worship has changed very significantly over the past two thousand years. From the examples given in the New Testament, an honest reader must conclude that worship in the early Church was quite different than how it tends to be done today.
The worship of the New Testament church grows out of the worship of the Jewish synagogue and is modified to the community belonging to the Lord Jesus. It is endowed with the Holy Spirit, and its emphasis is on freedom and spontaneity within an overarching structure of such things as the Word read and taught, the testimony, praying, the Lord’s Supper, water baptism, singing and sharing together.
How did we go from these simple and sometimes diverse ways of doing worship by the first followers of the Lord Jesus to the rigidly structured forms of the Middle Ages? And how did the Church after the Protestant Reformation give us what we see today?
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
