Reverence and Holy Order

#Overview

This subarticle gives the chapter a focused place for regulated worship, reverence, and gathered order.

Why worship is to be ordered by God's Word and carried out with reverence rather than invention.

#Key topics

• Regulated worship
• Reverence
• Order

These topics mark the doctrinal and navigational center of the page ¹.

#Worship and the Sabbath

This chapter is a major hinge in the Confession because it connects the theology of God and Scripture to the actual practice of gathered worship and Lord's Day holiness ¹.

#Ordinary elements and holy time

The subarticles point toward the ordinary elements of worship, the Sabbath day, and the reverence that gives ordered service its shape.

#Study note

A reader should use this page to move from principle to practice, then follow the child pages for narrower doctrinal and liturgical study.

#Sources

• [1] RPCNA convictions - Official constitutional landing page.
• [2] OPC Westminster Confession of Faith - Public full-text host used as an accessible article reference.

#Rights note

Summary-first treatment only. ²