Our churches … must recover the centrality of the Word in our worship. Music is a biblically require response to God’s Word, but the music God gave us was not given to build our churches upon. A church built on music — of whatever style — is a church built on shifting sands.
Mark Dever, What Is a Healthy Church?, p. 67
Unquestioningly, the paramount reason why we get, as a rule, so little out of God’s Word, is because of the appalling lack of self-judgment and brokenness before its Author, so prevalent on every hand.
H. A. Ironside, Notes on the Minor Prophets, pp. 273-274
The most comfortable type of religion is always a vague religion, nebulous and uncertain, cluttered up with forms and ritual…. There is nothing so uncomfortable as clear-cut Biblical truths that demand decisions.
D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure, p. 44
Our worship must be in harmony with what God has revealed about Himself in His Word. It is possible to have zeal without knowledge (Romans 10.2). For example, if we stress only one side of God’s attributes — say, His mercy and love — without also stressing His sovreignty and holiness, we’re not worshipping in truth.
Jerry Bridges, The Joy of Fearing God , p. 241
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