Sunday School Hour: Study of the 1689 London Baptist Confession, Chapter 22, Of Religious Worship (the Regulative Principle of Worship) - Part 3: 22.1-6

God's living presence in the midst of His church serves as both a warning and an encouragement that we must take care on how the church is built.

Sunday School Hour: Study of the 1689 London Baptist Confession, Chapter 22, Of Religious Worship (the Regulative Principle of Worship) - Part 2

The wisdom of the cross and the nature of true maturity in the Holy Spirit applied to the local church and Christian ministry.

What is wisdom and where is it found? Here, wisdom and our quest for it is taken out of the realm of merely the philosophical and rhetorical and practical, and instead, directred toward the historical work of Jesus Christ and the salvific blessings that he gives us in the Holy Spirit.

How do you know whether your faith rests 'on the wisdom of men' or 'the power of God'? Here we see a paradigm for faithful ministry: Preaching Christ, power in human weakness, for the purposes of a God-centered faith.

Sunday School Hour: Study of the 1689 London Baptist Confession, Chapter 22, Of Religious Worship (the Regulative Principle of Worship) - Part 1

Here we see just how important and just how practical the sovereignty of God is in the life of the local church. It is only this doctrine of God's free and sovereign grace that overthrows and confounds the wisdom of this world, and strikes at the core of every faction and rivalry and division in the local church.

Sunday School Hour: Study of the 1689 London Baptist Confession, Chapter 21, Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience - PART 2.