3 salient points that every Church should know about public worship

Don’t knock herd mentality because it can be the best protector for the Church,. The power of community is good.

The culture that you live in and in whatever generation speaks loudly to the Church. Wisdom is not running from it but embracing the good within it.

A shepherd needs to be able to bring correction and not just pats on the back.

“Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? ¹⁴ Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, ¹⁵ but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. ¹⁶ If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.” (1 Corinthians 11 v 13-16)

1. There are times when Christians should simply know the answer to their behaviours: ‘judge among yourselves’. It is the community that are the best judges of situations. Community.
2. The obvious within our culture can be the teaching points for the Church: ‘the very nature of things’. Not all that is found in culture is bad. Culture.
3. There are times we need to square up and tell people to stop being argumentative over things when we have laid out the practice of how we should behave beforehand, v16. Custom.

Paul seems to be calling for a return to the standard practice that he had drawn up for the churches. It seems he felt it to be tried and tested.

Christian men should be the best examples of being men and Christian women should be the best examples of being women in worship.

That’s what the churches of Paul – and of God – are like, according to Paul.

This church was in danger of moving away from this and it is still the case today.

Community, Culture and Custom. These 3 are crucial to Church worship.