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I saw in my dreams that just as Christian came up to the cross, his burden loosed from his shoulders and fell from his back and began to tumble till it came to the mouth of the sepulcher, where it fell in and I saw it no more.\u00a0 Then was Christian glad and lightsome and said with a merry heart, \u201cHe has given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

John Bunyan, The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jonathan Edwards once said, \u201cI love the doctrines of the gospels: They have been to my soul like green pastures.\u201d1<\/sup> Surely the testimony of our Christian faith ought to be the absolute joy of resting in the truths of our redemption!\u00a0 It is that thrill that prompted C.S. Lewis to write, \u201cFor my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n

There seems to be a flood of devotional thought today, coming from any and every religious affiliation.\u00a0 It is \u201creligiously correct\u201d in that it does not offend anyone nor promote one religious \u201cexpression\u201d over another.\u00a0 These devotional bytes are so encompassing that they do not even require a personal testimony of salvation in order to find spiritual application.\u00a0 Our area newspapers carry regular columns on the ecumenical virtues of all religions, especially any that claim to be \u201cChristian.\u201d\u00a0 The goal is obviously to apply religious belief to oneself, not to apply oneself to religious belief.\u00a0 In this way the individual becomes the standard of truth while belief is an item on a buffet that can be taken as one desires.<\/p>\n

Is all worship valid just because it is worship?\u00a0 John Flavel, a fifteenth century Puritan, wrote, \u201cCarnal men rejoice carnally, and spiritual men should rejoice spiritually.\u201d3<\/sup> It is no secret that lost\u00a0 people may speak when we speak, or laugh when we laugh, or sing when we sing, or say amen when we say amen.\u00a0 But are they doing the same thing we are doing?\u00a0 Or we might ask:\u00a0 If we form our worship by asking the lost person what he desires, will we be worshiping or merely sharing generic devotional religion?\u00a0 One pastor and author who promotes the \u201cseeker-sensitive\u201d format admitted, \u201cI learned that it is imperative to keep seeker-sensitive services and traditional services separate.\u00a0 They do not<\/em> mix.\u201d4<\/sup> Is there not a reason the two approaches do not mix?\u00a0 And isn\u2019t that reason more than the usual proffer of cultural relevancy?<\/p>\n

There is no greater biblical text describing worship than Revelation chapters four and five.\u00a0 We often sing a chorus from 4:11, \u201cThou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.\u201d\u00a0 This song expresses a truth that can be sung by all: believing saints (as here), angels (5:12) and creatures (5:13).\u00a0 But chapter five creates a sadness in heaven because, though all recognize God as God, there is not a \u201cman\u201d (5:3) who has \u201cprevailed\u201d (5:5) to open the special message of the seven-sealed book. \u00a0When Jesus Christ appears as a lamb slain (5:6) who is \u201cworthy\u201d to open the book, a new song is sung. But it is a song that can only be sung by the saints.\u00a0 Their song cannot be sung by the angels nor the creatures.\u00a0 It is a \u201cnew song\u201d which says: \u201cThou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation\u201d (5:9).\u00a0 The only other place a \u201cnew song\u201d is mentioned is 14:3 where the tribulation martyrs are described as \u201credeemed from the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The one requirement for participation in worshiping through the slain Lamb is to be redeemed by His blood. I am not advocating that the unsaved should be kept from singing in our worship services.\u00a0 I am saying that they have no reference point for advising us on worship.\u00a0 They should be invited guests who observe the worship of the redeemed and the Holy Spirit should be relied upon to translate the message of redemption to their needy hearts.\u00a0 Albert Mohler wrote, \u201cAlthough worship may be contemporary and remain authentic, it cannot be \u2018seeker-oriented\u2019 and remain true to the biblical concept of genuine worship.\u00a0 True worship focuses on God\u2014our gracious, loving holy Lord\u2014the Trinitarian God who delights in the praises of His people.\u201d5<\/sup> And His people are those who have been \u201credeemed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a biography of Francis Schaeffer, L.G. Parkhurst, Jr. writes about Schaeffer\u2019s break from the Presbyterian church because of the liberalism that had taken over that denomination.\u00a0 Schaeffer lamented that with all the pomp of the Presbyterian services, so few cared at all about the great doctrines of the faith.6<\/sup> Schaeffer\u2019s turning point came when \u201che learned what the finished work of Christ meant in his present experience . . . He recognized that his own lack of the reality of the presence of God in his life was related to his ignorance about the meaning of the finished work of Christ.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n

The \u201cnew song\u201d is a song about redemption, the finished work of Christ applied to the believing heart.\u00a0 J. Sidlow Baxter wrote, \u201cThe Christian belongs to what he is to become; not to what he has left behind.\u201d8<\/sup> Our worship must be the new song of a changed life which others can only stand and observe.\u00a0 Why do we think such worship is powerless?\u00a0 The fact that a lost person may be uncomfortable could be the greatest compliment that could be paid.<\/p>\n

It is a misnomer to say such worship is \u201ctoo heavenly minded to be any earthly good.\u201d\u00a0 C.S. Lewis said, \u201cThose who want Heaven most have served Earth best.\u00a0 Those who love Man less than God do most for Man.\u201d9<\/sup> The most \u201cprogressive\u201d Christian thinker should be the one who, having observed the plight of his generation, heralds the one message that can bring about true change.\u00a0 \u201cAnd they sang a new song!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/span><\/address>\n
1. Ralph Turnbull, Jonathan Edwards The Preacher <\/em> (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker Book, 1958) 70.<\/address>\n
2. C.S. Lewis, God In The Dock<\/em> (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdman\u2019s, 1970) 205.<\/address>\n
3. Mayo Hazeltine, Ed, Orations from Homer to McKinley<\/em>, Vol 4 (New York: Collier and Son, 1902) 1599.<\/address>\n
4. Ed Dobson, Starting A Seeker Sensitive Service<\/em> (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993) 43.<\/address>\n
5. Albert Mohler, \u201cEvangelical: What\u2019s In A Name,\u201d The Coming Evangelical Crisis<\/em> (Chicago: Moody Press, 1996) 40.<\/address>\n
6. L.G. Parkhurst, Jr. Francis & Edith Schaeffer<\/em> (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1996) 77.<\/address>\n
7. Ibid, 74-75.<\/address>\n
8. J. Sidlow Baxter, Christian Holiness<\/em> (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1977) 39.<\/address>\n
9. C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns<\/em> (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986) 80.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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