I heard someone express an opinion about what was and was not "faithful to the book" in the Lord of the Ring movies. A listener declared that the differences in the movies from the book were offensive to her. "Oh, so you're a purist?" was the response. "Proudly so," was the reply.
Thinking about this later, I was struck at how, in our worship, we should have some sort of desire to see it conform to the Bible- to see it be "faithful to the Book." We should rightly be offended when the worship of the church deviates widely from what God has said.
As movie purists, we're (and by "we" I mean Christians; these were Christians having this conversation; we Christians do love our Tolkien!) ready to take offense at things in these movies that fell short of the book we so know and love. Yet we will gather for worship to God and sing and say and do all kinds of things that God has not commanded, that fall so far short of the Book we profess to so know and love.
The ethic of the Puritans is missing in the churches, and badly needed.
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