THE WILL OF GOD
Re: The Presbyterian Church (USA)Book of Common Worship
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If you want to know what God's will is for your life, you will find it best fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ. As the Son of God who has fuilfilled the "Law and the Prophets," you can begin your search for the specifics of this plan in both the Old and New Testaments. Hosea is one of the best OT references, in his words, "(God) has told you, O mortal, what is good and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8.) You cannot do better as far as Jesus is concerned, than subscribe to those pieces he called the First and Second Great Commandments: 1. Love God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength; and 2, Love your neighbor as yourself. Do these instructions as conscientiously and consistently as possible--according to Scripture as you best understand it--and confess when you have done your best, though you have not done perfectly, you will have dscovered God's will as truthfully as a human being possibly can. .
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THE WILL OF GOD: Re:The Presbyterian Church (USA) Book of Common Worship explores in general the theological topic of "the will of God," as revealed in Scripture, and particularly as treated in the liturgical and worship material in the BOOK OF COMMON WORHSIP. The more than 200 references to the subject in the BCW appear in the different rubrics for worship: adoration, confession, supplication, petition, and explication or explanation. The goal of the book is better to understand how God's will has been revealed, identified, and defined, as a step toward the more perfect worship God expects of the Church.
About the Author
The Reverend Doctor Vernon G. Elgin has retired from a profession of more than fifty-seven years as a parish clergy, sometime Univesity Professor, and global missionary with the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has served the Church primarily in the USA, and more recently in Indonesia, Colombia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and Malawi, Africa. Vernon and his wife, Marjorie, are both graduates with Masters' Degrees from the Pittsburgh (Xenia) Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree from the New College of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and his baccalaureate from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has previously published OBITUARY THEOLOGY, SEVEN ABOMINATIONS WITH A WRENCH, and HOLY HITCHHIKING FOREIGN HIGHWAYS. The Elgin's reside in Kent WA, and have two sons and six grandchildren.