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WHY WE WORSHIP THIS WAY The Biblical Case for the Call to Worship, Corporate Confession, the Assurance of Pardon, and Written Prayers DWIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH | GADSDEN, ALABAMA | EST. 1897 A pastoral letter to the congregation, written in answer to real questions honestly asked. Read it with your Bible open. Nothing here asks you to trust me. It asks you to check the text. I The Question Behind the Question When someone asks why we are doing all this new material in the

The Biblical Way of Studying and Preaching “They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.” — Nehemiah 8:8 (ESV) WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT NEEDED? I have noticed a trend in the church. Preachers are working harder on their innovative abilities to communicate than on the power of the text itself. An inventor can become so consumed with the aesthetics of his device that he neglects its functionality. At

Worship on His Terms: The Regulative Principle of Worship “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.” — Deuteronomy 12:32 (ESV) What if the most dangerous thing happening in the American church today is not found in the obviously false teachers or the openly heretical congregations but in the worship of otherwise well-meaning churches who have simply decided that God is pleased with whatever they bring Him as long as

The Biblical Way of Family Worship “Gather the children, even nursing infants.” — Joel 2:16 (ESV) WHY WE WORSHIP TOGETHER Fathers and mothers spend hours every week helping their children train for homework, baseball, dance, and cheerleading. We invest enormous energy forming them for things that will not matter in eternity. But when it comes to the most beneficial practice in all of life, the worship of Holy God, we send them down the hall to glorified babysitters. We hand