ForSBCReform welcome!

1. It is Well with My Soul is my favorite hymn.

2. 2. I think G.I.Williamson in “The Westminster confession of Faith” said it better then I could...

“…Thus, for example, in Roman Catholic worship there is a great mass of ceremonies, symbols, and activities which are allowed, and they can be changed or added to on the basis of this spurious principle. Such worship is vain (matt. 15:9). It is false worship because it has no sanction behind it other than the will of man. These “things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship,” but they are “not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh” (Col. 2:23). To worship in the way that we will, withough proof that it is God’s will is to worship our own will rather then God. And what must be vigorously stressed is that there is no other guardian of the purity of true worship when this principle is abandoned, as it has been, and is being, abandoned even by many who claim this Confession. (For example, what command requires the candlelight service so common today? But if such a “ceremony” as this, invented by Protestants, is not ruled out, how can the ceremonies invented by Rome be condemned?) God will not be worshiped ixcept as he wills. And therefore true worship is both institued (prescribed) and limited. There are only two categories: what God has commanded is legitimate, and what God has not commanded is excluded.”

jenya andreyev