LITURGY
LITURGY
LITURGY
LITURGY
Why do we worship the way we do?
If you've never been to a Presbyterian or Reformed church before, some of what we do in worship may seem foreign. That's ok. We're here to help! Our church services follow what we call a liturgy. This means that we have a form and flow to our services that includes prayers, praises, and readings from Scripture. Although it may seem different at first, we believe that worshipping this way is a powerful way of engaging with God, and we look forward to sharing that with you.
Why Do We Worship The Way We Do?
If you've never been to a Presbyterian or Reformed church before, some of what we do in worship may seem foreign. That's ok. We're here to help! Our church services follow what we call a liturgy. This means that we have a form and flow to our services that includes prayers, praises, and readings from Scripture. Although it may seem different at first, we believe that worshipping this way is a powerful way of engaging with God, and we look forward to sharing that with you.
Why do we worship the way we do?
If you've never been to a Presbyterian or Reformed church before, some of what we do in worship may seem foreign. That's ok. We're here to help! Our church services follow what we call a liturgy. This means that we have a form and flow to our services that includes prayers, praises, and readings from Scripture. Although it may seem different at first, we believe that worshipping this way is a powerful way of engaging with God, and we look forward to sharing that with you.
Our Worship Principles
We worship the way that we do because of two foundational beliefs:
Because of this, our services are faithful to the Scriptures, filled with the Scriptures, and designed to create times of corporate response to God's Word so that we can have a conversation with our Father in heaven.
Our Worship Principles
We worship the way that we do because of two foundational beliefs:
Because of this, our services are faithful to the Scriptures, filled with the Scriptures, and designed to create times of corporate response to God's Word so that we can have a conversation with our Father in heaven.
Our Weekly Liturgy
Our Weekly Liturgy
The flow of our service each week will look simmilar to the following.
God's Invitation to Worship - God initiates our worship by speaking to us and calling us to praise Him in His loving presence (Psalm 100)
We invoke the power of the Holy Spirit by asking the Father to help us to worship in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:24)
We respond to God's call by obeying Scripture's command for us to sing Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (Ephesians 5:19, Psalm 100)
We turn to God's Word as He invites us to freely confess our sins to Him so that He can make us new (Lamentations 3:40)
We admit our sins to God both as individuals and as a church family (1 John 1:8)...
We receive assurance from God's infallible Word that we are truly forgiven of all our sins (1 John 1:9)
We reaffirm together that we hold to the true faith as it's been confessed by the church throughout the ages (Romans 10:9)
We respond to the confession of sin and assurance of forgiveness by singing songs full of gospel hope. (Psalm 51)
We worship God by offering up ourselves as living sacrifices to Him by giving back a portion of what He has given to us (Romans 12:1)
We commit our offering to the Lord for His glory, and we pray for our church, our community, and the world (1 Timothy 2:1-4)
We hear a passage of Scripture explained and applied to our lives as God's powerful way of convincing and converting sinners, and building them up in holiness and comfort (1 Thessalonians 2:13)
On the third Sunday of the month, we gather around the Table to commune with the resurrected Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 10:16; 11:23-26)
We receive a benediction or blessing from God as we go out into the world to be witnesses to His grace.
All in all, our liturgy tells a story. It's a story about a God who gathers us to Himself, cleanses us and forgives us, feeds us and instructs us, and then sends us out to be participants in the work that He is doing in our world. We would love nothing more than for you to be a part of that story with us.
Sacraments
Christ has given to the church two sacraments: baptism (Matthew 28:16-20) and the Lord's Supper (Matthew 26:26-29). Together with the Word and prayer, these sacraments make up the means of grace that the Holy Spirit uses to bring us to Christ and make us more like Him.
We believe the Bible teaches that sacraments are signs and seals. They are signs painting a picture of a spiritual truth and seals confirming that God has applied that spiritual truth to us when we put our faith in Him.
Baptism is a washing with water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that signfies and seals that we are united to Christ by faith, that we belong to His covenant people, and that we receive all the benefits that He has provided for us in Jesus.
The Lord's Supper is a partaking of bread and wine (juice) that signifies Christ's substitutionary death on the cross for our sins and seals our communion with Him in His presence by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Sacraments
Christ has given to the church two sacraments: baptism (Matthew 28:16-20) and the Lord's Supper (Matthew 26:26-29). Together with the Word and prayer, these sacraments make up the means of grace that the Holy Spirit uses to bring us to Christ and make us more like Him.
We believe the Bible teaches that sacraments are signs and seals. They are signs painting a picture of a spiritual truth and seals confirming that God has applied that spiritual truth to us when we put our faith in Him.
Baptism is a washing with water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that signfies and seals that we are united to Christ by faith, that we belong to His covenant people, and that we receive all the benefits that He has provided for us in Jesus.
The Lord's Supper is a partaking of bread and wine (juice) that signifies Christ's substitutionary death on the cross for our sins and seals our communion with Him in His presence by the power of the Holy Spirit.