Worship Workshop

Had the distinct pleasure of being present for a lecture on the "non controversial" and "easy" topic of Worship today given by W. Robert Godfrey. It's supposed to show up online pretty soon, will post the link when it does. Obviously, in one lecture he couldn't get very deep. But what he said was very worthwhile. He made a lot of points I've tried to make lately in conversations with various people, but in a winsome, comprehensive and more logical manner than I've pulled off. So I'm going to have to memorize his talk and steal like crazy :)

In describing how the church's understanding of worship has changed, Godfrey described a recent visit to a Presbyterian church in San Diego. He said that looking down the center of the 'sanctuary' towards the front of the room, everything that was in that line of vision would've been hated by Calvin. Not that Calvin is the be-all and end-all of Christian--or even Reformed--thought. But for a "conservative" Presbyterian church to be that thoroughly opposite to what the Reformed have historically understood was proper says a lot about how things have changed, and how it should at least give us pause for reflection.

(for the record, when you listen to the lecture...I'm with Calvin on that one)