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Six Lessons about Worship from The Golden Calf Incident

I have been reading through Ligon Duncan's book Does God Care How We Worship?  in which Duncan makes a case for the regulative principle in worship. The regulative principle, simply stated, is "the corporate worship of God is to be founded upon the specific directions of Scripture" (Derek Thomas,  https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/regulative-principle-worship/ ). I'll likely have more on the regulative principle later, but let it suffice it to say that I believe in the principle as at a fundamental level I believe it is an outworking of the doctrine of sola scriptura, that the Bible is the sole inspired and infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice. Six Lessons about Worship Duncan walks through some key scriptural passages that speak to lessons we learn about God's desires and commands for our worship. In the passage on the golden calf ( Exodus 32-34 , particularly Exodus 32:1-6 ) he notes that six applications: Impatience with