Clapping vs. Amen — Which Will Win?

TylerR
Church & Ministry
Church Music
Worship

Proclaim & Defend: The New Testament does not record any examples of clapping in worship nor do the epistles mention the practice … Clapping hands in churches is another small sign of negative cultural influence in our churches and the tendency to minimalist theology and practice.

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Bert Perry
Tue, 10/24/17 9:54 am

Wally asked for a Biblical analysis of clapping vs. the saying of “Amen”. Well, I did a lengthy study of the matter, and here’s what I come up with:

Honestly, if we’re going to criticize people for shallow arguments, it really helps to be proceeding from something else besides “no argument, Biblically speaking, at all.”

Now certainly there is a place for what Paul argues in 1 Corinthians 14, that things should be done decently and in good order, but blanket arguments without Biblical authority—really contra Biblical authority—don’t help us out here.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.