Worship by the Book
In 1923, J. Gresham Machen stood before Princeton Seminary and warned that the greatest threat to the church was not persecution but the slow replacement...
This is tradition perspectives on worship, drawing on John 4:23-24.
In 1923, J. Gresham Machen stood before Princeton Seminary and warned that the greatest threat to the church was not persecution but the slow replacement of revealed truth with human sentiment. A century later, his words cut with the same precision. When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers must worship the Father "in spirit and truth," He was not offering two optional ingredients.…
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