Shaping our Speech and Song in Worship by the New
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Description: Shaping our Speech and Song in Worship by the New Testament Would the apostles say amen to what were saying and singing Lester Ruth Duke Divinity School sitesdukeedulruth Basic Questions When contemporary Christians speak and sing in
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Shaping our Speech and Song in Worship by the New Testament Would the apostles say “amen” to what we’re saying and singing? Lester Ruth Duke Divinity School sites.duke.edu/lruth Basic Questions When contemporary Christians speak and sing in worship why don’t they sound more like the Bible? Specifically, when modern Christians speak and sing in worship why don’t they sound more like the Christians of the New Testament? Goals Look at speech patterns in the New Testament Compare to some current tendencies, especially in the most popular songs Offer some suggestions for reshaping our language and aiming for a broader “amen” Nouns Names for the Divine What’s going on? What are the tendencies? Naming tendencies in the most popular songs Raw Numbers Less than 5% name all three Persons of the Godhead in a single song Less than 20% name at least two Persons in a single song About 15% of the songs make a clear reference to the 1st Person (God the Father) and about 5% use the term “Father” About 10% of the songs make a clear reference to the 3rd Person (the Holy Spirit) About 50% of the songs make a clear reference to the 2nd Person (Jesus Christ) A tendency of divine collapse: collapsing God references to Jesus and using “God” instead of “Lord” as the way to identify Jesus What’s in the New Testament? In the Bible generally and in the New Testament 3 types of naming practices Covenantal: the Lord Imaginative: Rock, Shepherd, etc. Relational: the three Persons to each other General restraint about naming Jesus as God (esp. to the exclusion of making God the Father irrelevant) and a prevalence of naming him as Lord What’s in the New Testament? Gospel of Luke: Jesus Christ: frequently uses “Father” Other people and angels: God, Lord, Most High, Lord God, Mighty One, the God of Israel, Sovereign Lord What’s in the New Testament? Paul in Romans: the Persons in close proximity 1:3-4: …regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendent of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the son of God by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.” 5:5-6, 8: And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right
