General Assembly Worship & Culture

Terry Johnson regularly asks questions about why PCA General Assembly worship looks and sounds the way it does even as he calls us to be faithful to our principles.

In my previous article, I reflected on the public worship often offered at PCA General Assembly in contrast to my experience of public worship in local PCA congregations. Worship at the General Assemblies typically seem more like concerts with performers than Presbyterian worship services.

Presbyterian worship services ought to be God’s people interacting with their Covenant Lord, as RE Brad Isbell explains about a typical PCA worship liturgy:

The dialogical pattern of God speaking by his Word and his people responding in prayer, praise, and confession is obvious.

While many General Assembly worship services may have a liturgy that reflects a dialogue, that dialogue is often eclipsed by the complexity of the forms of the worship service

Worship & Presbyterians

Worship is the most important thing we do; worship is the reason we were created. Worship is one of the three crucial markers of the true church:

This catholic church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less, visible. And particula…