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From the Baptist Standard:
Dr. Bob Garret, Director, Master of Arts in Global Leadership, Dallas Baptist University, Dallas: 

This helpful book provides insights into the nature of Christian worship. The text reflects the constant and judicious perspective of a mature and careful student of Scripture with years of experience leading churches in an intercultural setting.

The book is recommended to all whose concern for Christian worship leads them to review how worship is treated throughout the Bible. The book rarely if ever moves away from exegetical insights that can be clearly traced back to the biblical texts that support them.

As the reader turns the pages, one walks from book to book through the Bible to follow James Bartley’s guided tour of the way worship is described in text after biblical text.

Worship That Pleases God will bless and enrich worship leaders, pastors, seminary students and other students of Scripture who aspire to align their worship of God to fall in line with clear biblical teaching. The organization of the book follows exegetically the sequence of the Bible, with helpful commentary on relevant texts to the theme of worship. Years of faithful service as a missionary to Uruguay and the mature insight of a cautious and judicious student of Scripture support the author’s conclusions.

We must be grateful to Bartley for providing us with the fruit of his labors—reflecting insight from years of study—to bring out biblical principles on the worship that pleases God.

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From Said at Southern

Terry Delaney, Book Reviewer, Said at Southern.

While I am highly suspect of smaller publishing companies who seem more along the lines of a self-publishing company, I found this book to be fairly sound theologically and exegetically. I find the subject matter to be unique in the sense that most people write for a particular historic understanding of worship with an appeal to the Bible. Dr. Bartley, on the other hand, appeals to the Bible in order that we may worship God according to what pleases Him.

I cannot recall seeing a book or bible study devoted to solely to understanding what the Bible says about worshiping God and therefore would recommend this volume to be added to your library for a couple of reasons. First, the author sticks to the Bible alone for his study material. Second, he writes with passion and humility on a topic that, while it has been divisive in the past, should be at the heart of everything we do in our lives. Obviously, you will not agree with everything Dr. Bartley says, but that is not the point of his book. His goal is to offer a systematic and biblical study of what kind of worship it is that God finds pleasing. I believe he met his goal.

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Dr. Paul Stripling, Executive Director Emeritus, Waco Baptist Association:

Dr. Bartley indicated in his Preface that “sincere confession is healthy for the soul.” From this, he began to discover for the first time “many of the biblical principles of worship.” Dr. Bartley, like a surgeon, skillfully helps each of us as readers to “discover” many biblical principles of worship. In a day when confession is almost forgotten, and the exploration for biblical principles has almost vanished, Dr. Bartley, like the cool breeze blowing across a hot desert has awakened our senses to the definition of worship that actually pleases God!

In a masterful manner, Dr. Bartley excavates truths from the Old Testament. As one draws from Dr. Bartley’s description of the Pentateuch, he provides a classic statement, when focusing on Genesis, by stating, “The first expression of worship reveals some of the principles that continue to be valid throughout the Bible.”

The reader will also appreciate the focus in the New Testament section, relating to worship, when reading this appropriate statement: “The Lord is pleased when the believer first surrenders self and then the offering, which represents symbolically the offering of life to God as owner and sovereign Lord.”

Dr. Bartley provides extraordinary assistance to the reader when he takes the discussions of the biblical principles related to worship from the Old and New Testaments and places these in a systematic form. This is of inestimable value to the student of “worship.” As Dr. Bartley “distills” this valuable information, a classic statement, that is an integral part of the fabric of worship is noted in the following: “When the believer draws near to God for worship, his purpose should be to establish or restore a correct relationship with God and seek to please him.”

Dr. Bartley has made a profound contribution to the understanding of authentic worship. Through his superb research of Scripture and excellent organization of the material, Dr. Bartley has provided a most refreshing insight into genuine worship, that “pleases God!” I would enthusiastically recommend this book to ministers and laypersons as they continue to seek steps in developing a worship pattern in their churches that has biblical roots! Such veracity on the part of Dr. Bartley in excavating these discoveries will prove most effective and helpful in attaining “Worship That Pleases God.”

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