First of all, the Bible does not call all this stuff 'worship'. In the New Testament, one word translated 'worship'... most frequently...refers to prostration, bowing down with one's head to the ground or floor. There is an equivalent word in Hebrew. David worshipped toward the temple. The Samaritans bowed down in Mt. Gerizim. The angel told John not to bow down to him. Another word translated 'worship' means service. Offering our bodies as a living sacrifice is a reasonable act of worship. This type of worship is holistic and encompasses the whole life.
Christians met on the first day of the week (Sunday to us) to take the LORD’S SUPPER and Paul PREACHED to them. Acts 20:7
On one occasion, they met on the first day of the week, which also might have been 'Saturday night' by modern reckoning. It was a Jewish custom, I have read, to have a meal at the end of the Sabbath, also. Paul started his evangelism in synagogues in city after city. Eutychus might have fallen out of the window after five or six hours of a discussion led by Paul or exhortation given by Paul on Saturday night, rather than after 18 hours of exhortation on Sunday night.
PRAYER was always encouraged in the New Testament1 Tim.2:8 and 1 Thess. 5:17. And SINGING Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16, Hebrews 13:15. In 1 Cor. 16:2, Paul told the churches to take up COLLECTIONS on the first day of the week. THOSE ARE 5 acts of worship.
The Bible doesn't call these acts 'worship' and there is other stuff in the Bible besides these five. Also,. in I Corinthians 16, Paul says to 'lay by him in store.' Where do you get a weekly collection, as opposed to men personally saving up on payday for collections taken from time to time?
You also leave out scripture that specifically has to do with what to do in church meetings.
I Corinthians 14
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Look at verse 26. Members of the assembly should sing, teach, share tongues, revelations, and interpretations 'unto edifying.' Tongues followed by interpretations are to be allowed in church. The church is commanded to allow prophets to speak.
I am not going to call edifying speech in the assembly 'worship' because I do not see where scripture does. I suppose it is included in the more general worship concept of 'service', but not 'worship. But worship as in proskuneo could potentially happen in reaction to prophecy.
I Corinthians 14
23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
I Corinthians 14:26 also speaks every __one__ or 'each' (ἕκαστος ) of you has a psalm. That appears to be solos sung in church. One sings a psalm to the congregation. Now, I suppose one could 'have' a song and have everyone sing it. I do not think that is forbidden. If I were to apply the wooden 'logic' of some I have read on this topic to this verse, with the assumption that every act in church needs New Testament scripture authorization, i might point out that there is no passage authorizing congregational singing in church. But I would also point out that there appears to be some form of congregational singing in Revelation, along with the sound of stringed instruments. Also, from a cultural or historical perspective, songs sung at the end of Passover may have been sung 'congregationally' and Christ and the disciples sang after the Lord's Supper.
We are given the warning in REV. 22:18 not to ADD to his word or TAKE AWAY from it. Or God will punish us. Any other Acts of worship, if not in the New Testament,
would be from man—not God; or would be “boastful” works that originate with man and of which he can boast. Or would be “additions.”
Much of your 'thought map' here is weird and just made up. I know you didn't make it up. I'm guessing you are probably following Restoration Movement teaching, who adopted it from Presbyterians. John Knox had a similar line of reasoning, but aimed at the Roman Catholic litany.
Some problems with your interpretation--- the Bible does not define 'worship' the way you do. Revelation 22:18 is not specifically about 'worship.' There are people who go to bizarre extremes with the regulative principle concept. For example if someone claps his hands during a praise song, they will say, 'Clapping is not authorized in 'worship' in the New Testament.' The Old Testament says to 'clap your hands all ye people' and the New Testament was not written in a vacuum. If clapping hands during 'worship' is forbidden in Revelation 22:18 how about other practices not specifically authorized in scripture, like reading scripture out of a codex or off a computer or cell phone screen, driving automobiles, or eating gelatin?
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