The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum True Worship John 4:23

And of course, this is where the contention and disagreements originate. Has God prescribed that the Psalms only are to be sung in the N.T. Church? Has God prescribed that the N.T. Church use no instrumentation? In fact, is the "Regulative Principle" to the extent that was taught by the Puritans even something which the Bible actually teaches? That the N.T. Church should sing Psalms is not disputed, at least by the majority of us here. The issue is: Should the N.T. Church sing Psalms exclusively, or should it sing the entire inspired revelation of God and its truths?

The matter is to be resolved from an objective standpoint, i.e., an interpretation of the biblical record and not from any form of paranoia, e.g., "if we allow hymn singing then all kinds of horrid songs will be brought into the Church." That type of argumentation, if applied consistently to all which the Church and individual Christians are responsible before God, then frankly there would be nothing allowed. For men will always take that which is good and either distort it, abuse it or ignore it. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

In His Grace,