NotUrAvgGuy
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I don't subscribe to any wooden "regulative principle" nor does the church I attend. I think we have a lot of freedom in worship provided we don't worship in a way that violates Scripture. Intercessory prayer to "saints" or Mary would violate Scripture. Scripture does not lay down a heavenly liturgy or even say our worship has to be liturgical in nature. Personally, I see a lot of freedom provided we don't violate Scripture. I am not a big fan of liturgical worship although I don't think it's wrong. Just not a style I care for but I don't want a free-for-all either. You could say my church has elements of a liturgy yet you would never call it a liturgical church.The prayer between Jesus and the Father is interesting in that it was clearly meant for our edification, since both Jesus and the Father are coequal members of the Holy Trinity, very God of very God, of one essense, as the Nicene Creed says.
At any rate, the approach you are using concerning worship is known as the “regulative principle” and it did not actually exist prior to the 16th century, and was rejected by Lutherans and Anglicans and was never in consideration by the Orthodox, but rather was historically a Calvinist concept.
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