The purpose of this note is to request a subject for a future article. I have asked several preachers including some of the authors of articles of Gospel Advocate with no responses. I can only believe they have no idea either. Old habits are some of the reasons for the decline of the church of Christ. Young people today want answers and we are not providing any.
The Church of Christ habitually calls what we do on Sundays and Wednesdays, in fact for every assembly, worship. We have even identified five acts of worship: praying, singing, preaching, giving, and the Lord's Supper.
Not being any reference to these practices as "items of worship" in the Bible the reference grew out of the Restoration Movement
Members of the Church of Christ claim commands, examples and necessary inferences for what they do but considering these items to be worship confuses people. To say praying for ourselves, singing to each other, giving to ourselves for our comfort, listening to preaching are items of worship and primarily nonparticipatory at that being sit and listen is difficult for people to comprehend them to be worship. We conduct memorial services for the deceased all the time and hardly call it worship so even the Lord's Supper to be called worship is a stretch. All can be edifying but worship?
Nowhere are we commanded to worship which is good because worship cannot be commanded. Worship comes from within.
The questions include: Why do we call them worship? How are they worship? Why is giving to ourselves considered comparable to Paul's instructions for the collection for the poor saints in Jerusalem?
Thank you for your time.
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@gmail.com
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"Remember, the only difference between marital and martial is where you put the 'i'"
Albert "the Reb" Lewis
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