Reforming Worship: The Necessity of Reforming the Church with W. Robert Godfrey 

This message is from Dr. Godfrey’s 6-part teaching series The Necessity of Reforming the Church. Learn more: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/necessity-of-reforming-the-church

You gave me life beyond the grave My deepest shame is cast away You sing a song that covers me It's your mercy Your loving-kindness It leads me to repentance Lord, let your kindness YOUR LOVING KINDNESS Let it lead me to repentance AMEN

NEVER EVER GIVE UP ON OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,……….. WHY?,…….. BECAUSE HE NEVER GAVE UP ON US,………AMEN

Your mercy, Your mercy I stand before my king And I bow my heart to sing You save me, You raise me You died so I could live No greater love than this Your Mercy Baloche

"That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." The reason we are saved

There is a direct correlation, and a hand in hand relationship, between the church receiving poor theological training, and understanding of who God is, and then having poor man centered worship. If we don't understand who God is, we don't know how to properly worship God. This is so evident with Christ's confrontation with the woman at the well, she needed to know and understand who Christ was so she and others can worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

"5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. " Ephesians 2:5-7✝️

"For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:10 Anyone anywhere Who believes and confesses Jesus Christ WILL BE SAVED

Yes agree quantity now over quality In church i was only thinking on this

LORD LET YOUR KINDNESS LEAD US TO REPENTANCE Your mercy, Your mercy I stand before my king And I bow my heart to sing You save me, You raise me You died so I could live No greater love than this Your Mercy once was lost I walked away The road was dark I could not see My hope was gone the pain was real But your mercy You saw my steps you felt my fears You heard my cries you caught my tears Arms open wide you ran to me With your mercy

Thank you for this teaching Dr.Godfrey and Ligonier Ministries. This is so timely. Looking forward to read that book from Calvin.

"In what ways have we accommodated ourselves to the culture around us in terms of what we are doing in worship?" Calvin would say (among other things): musical instrumentation

Amen! .🙏.

This was very helpful. I enjoy music and praise to God but the old hymns are not the only way yet the modern style I feel has swung way too far and is more focused on the people, bands, singer, that it is on God. I dunno ...would seem churches could find a balance between modern style and ancient hymns to honor and praise Him. Yet it only in my experience seems to be you get only one extreme or the other. I think that lives more along the note of a spirit of fear and of legalism which is equally as wrong as theater band sessions at the pulpit. Guitars and all the wonderful items of music can all be used to praise Him and He tells us all about them through out His Word. We should strive to find a balance which is absolutely 100 % humble & honoring to Him.

Why not learn to adore God at least as much as you adore yourself? 🙏🔑✌️

Interesting

I SEE THAT HAND!!!

Some good points about worship... but who is this Calvin that he becomes the focal point of this man's teaching ?