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“Nowhere is the church’s opposition to the world more pronounced than when it is engaged in public worship. Worship is the church’s renunciation of the world. We sing to a God that the world refuses to acknowledge, and so we sing in a way that the world cannot comprehend.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 164.
“The means of grace that God provides in worship are sustenance for believers. They are what keep us going through the wilderness of our pilgrimage and warfare. If we avoid them or take them for granted, we foolishly ignore God’s gracious and wise provision. Moreover, if we trivialize them by preferring means of our own devising, then it is likely that we do not understand how difficult the pilgrimage of the Christian life is and how generous is God’s provision.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 137.
“The teaching of the Reformed confessions suggests a simple test for distinguishing between genuine and counterfeit joy in worship: Is it accompanied by reverence or not? Are we boasting in our Savior or are we boasting in ourselves? Are we looking to Christ for access to God, or are we feeling good about our own merits? We overcome our fear only through the death and resurrection of Christ. We are spared death and judgment only because Christ willingly submitted to both.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 127.
“The Israelites knew that if God did not consume the sacrifice he would consume the worshippers.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 123.
“Contemporary confusion about the Great Commission arise from two fundamental mistakes. The first is an unwillingness to believe God’s promise to use the church and things the world considers foolish to accomplish his purpose of reaching the lost. . . The second mistake comes from understanding the church and its worship merely as vehicles for evangelism.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 47-8.
“We dare not replace the church with a vehicle of our design, no matter how much more efficient it may seem to operate.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 44.
“. . . the church must be unapologetic in her worship. She must not cater to those bound to ridicule here ways as foolish. Christian worship is, in fact, a bold political act. it subverts the world’s values by assigning glory and praise to the one whom the world despises. And as weak as the church at worship might appear to the watching world, the truth is that the powers of this world are no match for the power of God who is present among his people when they gather to sing praise, pray, and hear his Word.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 34.
“The Bible regards reverence and joy not as opposites that we turn on and off during worship, but at mutually reinforcing, just as the death and resurrection of Christ nurture both humility and celebration.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 20.
“We suggest that when churches undergo dramatic changes in what is often called ‘worship style,’ they may actually be changing their theology as well.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether, With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (Phillipsburg: P & R, 2002), 16.
“The most heavenly duties we perform need to be purged by the blood of Christ.”
Jeremiah Burroughs, “Gospel Worship (The Right Manner of Sanctifying the Name of God in General), edited by Don Kistler (Orlando: Soli Deo Gloria, 1990), 133; originally published in 1648.
