Comments on: Q&A Friday - What About the Regulative Principle? http://www.worshipmatters.com/2006/02/qa-friday-what/ Resources for Leading Worship from Bob Kauflin Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:48:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: David Wayne http://www.worshipmatters.com/2006/02/qa-friday-what/#comment-264 David Wayne Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:22:40 +0000 http://www.worshipmatters.com?p=97#comment-264 Bob - as one who comes from a tradition which embraces the regulative principle one of the things I have found helpful is a discussion of how God's Word governs worship. I believe it is Scotty Smith, but maybe some others, who have said that God's Word may command the way we worship in one of three ways - 1) by explicit command, 2) by principle (i.e. good and necessary inference) and 3) by example. This way of looking at it still maintains the element/circumstance distinction and I think it opens the regulative principle up a bit, making it less restrictive. Bob - as one who comes from a tradition which embraces the regulative principle one of the things I have found helpful is a discussion of how God’s Word governs worship. I believe it is Scotty Smith, but maybe some others, who have said that God’s Word may command the way we worship in one of three ways - 1) by explicit command, 2) by principle (i.e. good and necessary inference) and 3) by example.

This way of looking at it still maintains the element/circumstance distinction and I think it opens the regulative principle up a bit, making it less restrictive.

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