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Public and Private Worship … (June 2024 Update) 

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2024|

Public and Private Worship … (June 2024 Update) 

Every time I teach the Prayer and Worship class, students have one big question (among others). I have a lecture called “Public Worship is More Important than Private Worship,” and most of the students disagree. On the surface, it seems like private worship should be what “feeds” our public worship. But upon further examination, I am convinced that, while private worship is vital to our walk with God, public worship has far more benefits and blessings than private worship. We posted this article a number of years ago. But I think it is worth revisiting this important topic – especially as more and more believers are tempted to neglect public worship by listening online. There are many ways that private worship, as important as it is, is not sufficient for our total spiritual growth. 

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Thomas Watson and Pure Worship

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 27, 2012|

Those who will add to one part of God’s worship will be as ready to take away from another. “Laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men” (Mark 7:8). They who will bring in a tradition, will in time lay aside a command. This the Papists are very guilty of; they bring in altars and crucifixes, and lay aside the second commandment. They bring in oil in baptism, and leave out the cup in the Lord’s Supper. They bring in praying for the dead, and lay aside reading the Scriptures intelligibly to the living. Those who will introduce into God’s worship that which he has not commanded, will be as ready to blot out that which he has commanded.

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