Conserving Well, Changing Wisely: Part 3
Image from Wikimedia Commons Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Col. 3:16-17 In a previous message, I said that I wanted to point out three areas of conservation for our church: an area of theology (the sovereign grace of God in the salvation of sinners through Christ), an area of doxology (the worship of the church according to the word of God), and an area of ecclesiology (the sacraments and structure of the church). Today, we want to look at the area of doxology. Doxology is worship, and I think we can all agree that worship is an essential element to the life of the church. When Luke sums up the practice of the very earliest church services at the end of Acts 2, he writes that they were “Praisin...
