With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship
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Overview
Even among Reformed Christians, worship is a fighting word. Conflicting expectations for worship reveal that there is significant confusion about its nature, purpose, and practice.
Originally designed for Sunday school classes, this book is a primer to the fundamentals of worship, drawing from Scripture and Reformed confessions. By overviewing how Reformed theology informs how we think about, put together, and participate in a worship service, Hart and Muether prepare us to gather corporately for worship in ways that are appropriate to our triune God.
- Reveals significant confusion about the nature, purpose, and practice of worship
- Draws from Scripture and Reformed confessions to explain the fundamentals of worship
- Prepares us to gather corporately for worship in ways that are appropriate to our Triune God
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sound Doctrine and Worship
- 1. The Church and the World
- 2. The Purpose of the Church
- 3. A Worshiping Community
- 4. The Holy Day of Worship
- 5. Acceptable Worship
- 6. Reformed Liturgy
- 7. Leading and Participating in Worship
- 8. Worship with Godly Fear
- 9. The Means of Grace
- 10. Elements, Circumstances, and Forms
- 11. Song in Worship
- Conclusion: Discernment in Worship
- Notes
- General Index
- Index of Scripture
- Index of Confessions and Catechisms
This is a good book, which ought to be read by every believer who wishes to engage in worship that is pleasing to God because it is worship that is in harmony with God’s will as revealed in the inspired, infallible Scriptures.
—Robert D. Decker, Protestant Reformed Theological Journal
The authors are measured, balanced and compactly comprehensive. The book is, after all, a primer, so they shorthand some of the more controversial or questionable Old School hermeneutics. It’s nonetheless heartily recommended to pastors and elders.
—Gerry Wisz, Christian Renewal
[A] well-written, thought-provoking volume. . . . Laymen and ministers should read this discussion of the value of Reformed worship and what Reformed worship is.
—Christian Observer