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What makes a church service effective? Is it great music and slick presentations that make

an effective church service? Nancy DeMoss Walglamo says services have to have something else.

You can go to a lot of churches today, unfortunately,

and the scripture may not even be read out loud.

Sometimes it may not even be referenced very much,

but biblical worship services have the scripture,

the word of God at the heart, at the center

of the service.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Let's Go to Church.

For October 19th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Thank you. October 19th, 2022. I'm Dana Gresh.

All this week, Nancy's been explaining how to do something you may have been doing all your life.

She's in a series called How to Listen to a sermon. I'm certainly finding it convicting and thought-provoking.

If you've missed any of it, you can catch up at Reviverheart.com or on the Reviverheart's app.

She'll continue today talking about how important scripture is to worship.

I had the privilege a number of times during the 1980s of traveling in Eastern Europe back before the fall of communism and when it was costly, even more

than it is today, to be a Christian and for Christians to congregate in public worship in some of those

countries. And I can remember just being

astounded as I would go into a church, say, in Romania, and get there an hour before the service

started and find that the place was jam-packed, that people were there, they were eager, they were

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