A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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b. Our evangelical Protestant tendencies

(1) The problem of ignoring historical worship practice of the Church

(2) Create the rut of ignoring everything that has gone on before, concentrate on what we like and have done

(3) Ignore the power of the Spirit to work in the past

(4) Deny the anointing that God has given to his people throughout every era

(5) Short-change those you lead by isolating them from their brothers and sisters of long ago

4. Views regarding Liturgical Theology

a. Anabaptist view: reproduce NT practice unchanged

b. Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed view: biblical principles and changing conditions

c. Jewish synagogue practice: innovation (things included in the Jewish synagogue practice which were not contained in the OT)

d. Historic Christian practice: cultural, fluid, in line with Scripture

e. Doxological theology (cf. Robert Webber): how Jewish and Christian worship can inform theology