Heidelminicast Q&A: What Do We Know About Early Christian Worship?

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6 comments

  1. As for music in worship, I find your first argument strong, but the second not so much. where is the best argument tying instruments to old covenant symbology?

  2. Great MiniCast epi albeit the deep scary voice always scares my 90 year old mother. (Is it really necessary?) Doesn’t Escondido URC sing hymns? Sounds like you should be in the RPCNA. I know Dr. Godfrey said if he had it his way, he’d subscribe to exclusive psalmody.

    • MP,

      First, thanks for listening. The voice guy does have a deep voice but he’s really a multi-talented teddy bear.

      Bob isn’t an exclusive psalmodist. What I’ve argued on the Heidelcast and in Recovering the Reformed Confession and on the HB is that Scripture (all of it, not just the Psalms) are sufficient for corporate worship. Bob sings non-canonical hymns. I don’t. If the church decided to sing only Psalms Bob and I would submit happily to that but he’s not argued for exclusive Psalmmody.

      • I understand, I know he doesn’t argue for it. I just heard him say if he had it his way, he would sing just psalms. I’m sorry, I’m confused. Dr. Godfrey sings non-canonical hymns and you don’t but you both attend the same church, right?

        • Yes, the church order of the United Reformed Churches in North America stipulates that the Psalms shall have the “principal place” in worship but permits the singing of non-canonical hymns.

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