N. Eshelman
Puritan Board Senior
The Westminster Assembly, every morning would hear preaching from 6am-8am by an "abbey lecturer" and then another sermon from 8am-9am by a "probationer." They would then spend time in prayer and reading the Scriptures (VanDixHoorn, Minutes & Papers v.1, p.185).
This was BEFORE any of the debates of the day would begin.
If this routine was proposed today for a Synod, Classis, Presbytery, General Assembly, etc. it would be considered "not a good use of time."
Maybe the Reformed and Presbyterian churches need to concern themselves less with time management and more with being bathed in the Word of God and prayer before debates/discussions in called ecclesiastical courts.
Maybe then we would see reformation and revival.
This was BEFORE any of the debates of the day would begin.
If this routine was proposed today for a Synod, Classis, Presbytery, General Assembly, etc. it would be considered "not a good use of time."
Maybe the Reformed and Presbyterian churches need to concern themselves less with time management and more with being bathed in the Word of God and prayer before debates/discussions in called ecclesiastical courts.
Maybe then we would see reformation and revival.