Inventing New Styles of Worship
INVENTING NEW STYLES OF WORSHIP
By
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, Ph.
D
Director, Public Campus Ministries, Michigan Conference
Author, Must We Be Silent? and Receiving the Word
Much discussion is taking place over what forms of...
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Inventing New Styles of Worship
INVENTING NEW STYLES OF WORSHIP
By
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, Ph.
D
Director, Public Campus Ministries, Michigan Conference
Author, Must We Be Silent? and Receiving the Word
Much discussion is taking place over what forms of worship are appropriate.
Some alternative
styles being tested are a combination of incompatible elements from other faiths.
As long ago
as December 17, 1990, a feature article in Newsweek magazine spoke of the 1990 s as “an age
of mix em, match em salad-bar spirituality--Quakerpalians, charismatic Catholics, New Age
Jews--where brand loyalty is a doctrine of the past and the customer is king.
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In contrast to the present trend toward cafeteria-style worship, the Bible recognizes only two
kinds of worship, true worship and false worship.
An attempt to marry true and false worship is
known technically as syncretism, and biblically as "Babylon.
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Because God s faithful followers have always resisted drifting to
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