“Why is Reformed Worship so Serious?”

By Rev. Daniel R. Hyde, Oceanside United Reformed Church, Oceanside, California

So because we are meeting with God, to receive His ministry to us, to break the tyrannical pattern of the world, and to join in the eschatological chorus, let us do so with “reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire” (Heb. 12:28–29).