So what I'm going to do and try not to take too long on this since I don't, it's the most

difficult section from a historical standpoint and may be overly complicated, so I may move

more quickly through it in the hope that you will simply take the pointers that I give and think

on them for yourself because most of us are not on a crusade to abandon worship services

and say they're not biblical.

But I do feel some sense of urgency as a biblical person to ask why we have them.

Why are their services?

And for me, as a person who gives my whole life to preaching, to know whether or not I'm doing something that the Bible considers to be right, indeed warranted and

commanded, is preaching to be as prominent in our services as it is. Because from generation

to generation, there always rise up people. Usually it comes from people who are disillusioned

from something that's

gone wrong in church, but people rise up and say, preaching is simply not for our day anymore.

We need discussion. We need interaction. We need conversation. And so you get rid of pulpits and you put

things in a circle and just

because preaching is just of another age and is that the case did calvin's quote that we

quoted about its amazing about the amazing flexibility and how you can change things from age to

age does that mean uh sermons are good in some periods and sermons aren't good in other periods?

And so that's what this is for.

And so let's go there for a little while.

I've got seven theses, seven points.

And the first one is regular corporate seasons or services of worship.

And here I'm going to define it like this.

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