Regulative Principle

Founders.org: [T]he regulative principle keeps the saints of God from deviating away from truth and plunging headlong into what the Puritans called sinful “will-worship.”

Founders.org: Baptists once worshiped by the regulative principle and a scant few still do. Many do not believe Scripture sets forth such parameters for worship as is argued by the regulative principle.

“In order to clarify what the regulative principle does and doesn’t mean, let’s consider the Westminster Assembly’s classical statement of it …”