The following is an excerpt from The Covenant Foundation'sLeading in Worship: A Sourcebook for Presbyterian Students and Ministers Drawing Upon the Biblical and Historic Forms of the Reformed Tradition, pp. 17-18). Regarding the tendency to drop Sunday evening services, we would urge caution for the following reasons: First, the scriptural pattern of morning and evenin...

"Pictures of Christ are in principle a violation of the second commandment. A picture of Christ, if it serves any useful purpose, must evoke some thought or feeling respecting him and, in view of what he is, this thought or feeling will be worshipful. We cannot avoid making the picture a medium of worship. But since the materials for this medium of worship are not derived ...