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Recovering Reformed Worship to Bring Revival

I am currently reading an outstanding book on Reformed Worship. If you want a detailed understanding of why we do what we do in worship, its rootedness in Scripture, the Early Church, and recovered in the Reformation by Calvin, Zwingli, Luther, Beza, and others, then get this book. Here's an important snippet. I do not think it is an overstatement to say that our empty seeker-sensitive worship has not only opened the floodgates to apostasy, but by trying to meet "felt needs" rather than point to God in Christ and growth through His Word, has opened the door to things like the "felt needs" of drag Queens being met by dancing like whores in front of children.  If we believe in repentance, then we need to believe in telling our "felt needs" to shut up, because they are often/usually sinful desires. But I digress. Here's the quote below and a link to the book:  https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/worshipping-with-calvin-recovering-the-historic-minis...

Reforming the Reformed's Worship?

By: Thomas F. Booher Last time I wrote about  reforming evangelicalism . I wagered that there was a solid 25-30 million non-Reformed evangelicals that would be willing to listen to Reformed/biblical teaching that could be positively impacted by it. I argued for incrementalism, that any improvement in the non-Reformed is a victory, even if they end up simply incorporating some Calvinistic teaching into their theology. Obviously, we want them to see the reality of their deadness in trespasses and sins and to express that biblically, which would lead to belief in election and predestination, but if they come closer to that, becoming more God-centered and biblical, that's still a victory. Progress, any degree of trending in the right direction, would be a huge improvement over the current state of affairs in Evangelicalism. Tonight, however, I want to address the issues in the PCA that I have seen. Because it is a confessionally Reformed denomination, I cannot so easily ...