I will always be among the first to sharply criticize the abuses of ritual and liturgy that so often plague the older and “higher” churches in the world. It is as though they never quite understood one of the assumptions of the Apostles’ teaching regarding Judaism—the old is gone, the new is come. Many older church bodies seem to have returned surprisingly quickly to a pattern of ritual and practice similar to Judaism after first being taught that God had come to dwell among His people in a new way, a way in which each person among His people was made a temple of God by the indwelling of the Spirit of God. Rituals, fasts, and spiritual disciplines quickly found their way into the law books of many churches and placed heavy weights upon the hearts of men.
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