Scripture-Shaped Worship
Volume 9
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June 1, 2021
Editor
Scott Aniol
Editor
Joseph Crider
Dean and Professor of Church Music and Worship in the School of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Seminary
Editor
R. Allen Lott
Professor of Music History at Southwestern Seminary
Editor
Charles T. Lewis
Associate Dean of the School of Church Music and Worship and Professor of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Seminary
What would it mean for our worship to be truly shaped by Scripture? Christians are people of the book. Conservative Evangelical Christians, in particular, demand that their beliefs and lives be governed by Scripture. God’s inspired Word is “profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim 3:16–17). Therefore, for Christ-honoring sanctification to take place, the lives of Christians must be governed and saturated by the living and active Word of God. And for this same reason, corporate worship must also be governed and saturated by the Word; since public worship both reveals belief and forms belief, it must be shaped by Scripture.
