Note: This week
I recorded seven new one minute “Grace Points” devotionals that will begin
running three times per day on Monday-Tuesdays-Wednesday on the local talk
radio (AM 1260; FM 107.5). Below is the
script for one of the devotions on the Regulative Principle of worship and here’s a link
to the audio:
Welcome
to Grace Points, a ministry of Christ Reformed Baptist Church in
Charlottesville:
Imagine you go to your
favorite restaurant where you order the biggest, juiciest steak on the
menu. The waiter returns and sets a
covered plate before you, which he then slowly uncovers to reveal…chicken!
“What!” you exclaim, “I
ordered a steak!” “But, you don’t
understand,” the waiter responds, “I prefer chicken.”
We sometimes approach
the worship of God like that waiter. We
think worship is about presenting to God what we prefer rather than what God
commands.
At Christ Reformed we
believe in the Regulative Principle of worship.
We strive to give to God in worship only those things he orders or
commands in Scripture.
In Deuteronomy
12:32, God says, “What things soever I command you, observe to do it…”
Christ Reformed meets for worship each Sunday at 10:30 am at
the Covenant Lower School, 1000 Birdwood Rd., just off the 250 bypass. They can also be reached on the web at
christreformedbaptist.org, where you’ll find audio sermons and more Grace
Points.
The other new devotions include:
Join in praying for these Grace Points spots as they are
broadcast over the next 13 weeks. Pray that
they might minister to those that hear them and that they might be used to draw
guests to worship with us.
Grace and
peace, Pastor Jeff Riddle
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