Old Light on New Worship (Print)

Old Light on New Worship was written to address a key part of the "worship revolution" that has been going on in many different conservative and evangelical Christian churches and groups over the last generation. Much of this change involves the music and singing offered as worship, including the expanding use of various musical instruments and even bands and orchestras.

This volume primarily focuses on a single issue in the discussion of music in worship: Is there a place for the use of musical instruments in the new covenant worship of God? In answering this question, the author deals with three damaging weaknesses in modern evangelicalism.

• The first is a failure to apply the principle of sola scriptura, the conviction that the Bible is our supreme and sufficient guide and that, specifically, we are to worship God only in the way appointed in His Word.
• Another weakness is a kind of historical blindness, the neglect of what previous generations have discovered from the Scriptures.
• A third characteristic of today's church is a frightening naivete. Like children playing with high explosive, too many Christians seem unaware of music's potential for harm as well as good.

John Price addresses each of these weaknesses. He demonstrates, with an impressive accumulation of scriptural evidence, the absence of any reference to musical instruments in the worship of the early church and the silence of the New Testament on this matter… His overview of church history will surprise many, with its weight of evidence that the church has sung praise unaccompanied for the greater part of her history and that this has been the position of many of the greatest and wisest of her leaders. A penetrating analysis of the psychology of music points up its frequently deceptive effect upon the human emotions and the very real danger of confusing a merely sensual excitement with true worship.

About John Price: A graduate of Trrinity Ministerial Academy in Montville, NJ, he is currently the minister of Grace Baptist Church in Rochester, NY, where he has served since 1995.

More Information:
Author/Speaker: John Price
Binding/Media: Hardback
Copyright: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-881095-01-0
Language: English
Pages: 256
Size: 6 x 9 x .75
Publisher: Simpson Publishing