What Happens When We Worship

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Worship is a sacred privilege for Christians, and how we approach worship is key to revealing what we believe about our relationship with the transcendent God. With that understanding in mind, Carl and Todd invite Jonathan Cruse to talk about his book, titled What Happens When We Worship. Jonathan is an ordained minister in the OPC, and pastors Community Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo, MI. Cruse helps his readers—both young and old, seasoned believers and those new to the faith—to understand the elements of worship, all that is taking place while we worship, and why certain aspects are done as they are in the Reformed tradition. It’s a rich book, written that every Christian might grasp the wonder and awe of worship.

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
0:04.6	Listen for more at the conclusion of today's program.
0:32.2	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:37.7	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:40.3	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:54.9	Welcome to Mortification of Spin. My name's Carl Truman. I'm here with my usual host, Todd Pruitt.
0:58.2	I teach biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania.
1:03.6	And Todd is pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in what he describes as the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.
1:14.4	And today is one of those shows where we have a special guest. Our guest today is the Reverend
1:20.2	Jonathan Cruz. Jonathan has the great good fortune to be a pastor in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
1:29.5	and to be a graduate from Westminster Seminary in California.
1:35.3	He's currently pastoring a church in Michigan, and the reason we've got him on today
1:39.9	is that he has written an excellent new book on worship.
1:44.5	Worship is, of course, a perennial interest, or should be, a perennial interest to all Christians.
1:52.9	And that's what we want to talk about today.
1:55.3	So welcome to the show, Jonathan.
1:57.2	Thanks so much for having me.
1:58.3	It's my pleasure to be here.
2:00.7	We're going to start with a very generic question. I mean, there are an awful lot of books on
2:05.5	worship out there. I've been a Christian now for nearly 40 years. And I remember as a young
2:12.4	Christian wandering into a bookshop and finding a shelf load of books on worship. That number can only have increased
2:20.6	over the last 40 years. So why have you written this book? What special contribution do you think
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