Of the making of commitments there seems to be no end. Having formed any number of New Year’s Resolutions, we find ourselves bombarded by new pressures from within and without—and after nearly a month, perhaps we have already decided to call it quits. But what if we take a moment to step back from our […]
A Plain Presentation of the Glorious Gospel of God’s Saving Grace in Christ
Christians believe that the one living and true God spoke by His Spirit through chosen men to reveal Himself to us. The men through whom God chose to speak wrote down what He said through them, so that we would have a written testimony of Who God is and what God has done. From this […]
The Rule of Worship
As we saw in the previous article, worship is to be directed to God, for His glory. If this is to be the case, we must ask Him how He wants to be worshiped. The answer to this question is called the Regulative Principle of Worship. The principle is stated in our confessional documents: The […]
The Focus of Worship
I will write over the next few weeks about our worship. As we think about the purposes of worship, there are several important principles. First, the object of our worship is the Triune God. We worship God the Father, through Christ the Mediator, by the Spirit (Ps. 100; John 4:22-24). Hence, our worship must be […]
A Parish Church for Our Community
This week, the elders tasked with overseeing the work of Antioch Presbyterian Church met as a group in preparation for the launch of worship services on September 20th. As part of a very productive meeting, we discussed what it means to be a parish church at the crossroads of Greenville and Spartanburg counties ministering to […]
