Report on the Regulative Principle (Synod 2002)

This paper will give you a historical, confessional, and theological overview defending the biblical doctrine of worship, which Reformed churches all held until the 19th Century.

“John Owen produced a robust, Christ-centered ecclesiology in which the regulative principle supports the Christian life the way joists support a floor.”

If we did not have the Scriptures, we would not be discussing the regulative principle of worship. Apart from the word of God, man can be a seeker, but cannot know God to worship him in truth (Acts 17:23).