Acceptable Worship

A Historical Anthology of Great Historical Figures

Figure #5: Gregory the Great

Worship, the Changing Priority?

Gregory the Great – “The Last Great Pope”

● Defense Against Donatism

● Retreat from Worldliness

● Pursuing Missions

● Changing Worship

Worship, the Changing Priority?

I. Differences in Our Worship

II. Philosophy of Our Worship

A. The Regulative Principle Stated

1. The light of nature showeth that there is a God, who hath lordship and sovereignty
over all, is good, and doth good unto all, and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised,
called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heart, and with all the soul, and with all
the might. But the acceptable way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself,
and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to the
imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible
representation, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture.

B. The Regulative Principle Expressed

● strange foreign, forbidden, or unauthorized

III Example of Our Worship: The Synagogue

A. The Rise of the Synagogue

B. The Worship of the Synagogue

1. Devotion

2. Didactic

3. Ritual

C. The Use of he Synagogue

IV. Reception of Our Worship: The Church

A. Within the Jewish Church

B. Within the Mission Church

1. Devotion

2. Didactic and Ritual