In Spirit & Truth

Worship

“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!” - Ps. 95:6

A Meeting with God

Above all else, worship is a meeting of the triune God with His covenant people. God meets with His people and we with Him. This is reflected in our order of worship. God addresses us in the call to worship, in the salutation and benediction, in the reading and preaching of the Word, and in the sacraments. We respond and address God in prayer, in confession, in Psalms and hymns, in hearing the Word, in receiving and partaking of the sacraments. God works in our lives as He meets with us.

God-Centered

In worship, we bow at the feet of God and extol His majesty. God’s glory is the purpose of worship. We engage in all the elements of worship with a single-minded focus on God’s glory and with a humble and dependent expectation that the exalted Lord Jesus Christ Himself will edify us and build His church through His appointed means of grace -- all to His own glory.

Biblical

The reading and preaching of God’s Word is the centerpiece of our worship. God’s Word is also what regulates how we worship. We believe that the elements of worship are to be those that God Himself appoints in His Word, not a matter of human imagination or invention.

A Celebration of the Gospel

Our worship celebrates all that God has done for us in Jesus Christ. We rejoice that, in His great love, God has saved a people for Himself and is bringing us to eternal glory. We delight in our Savior Jesus Christ. We rejoice in the gospel. It is the heartbeat of our worship.

Liturgy / Order of Worship

Our worship always begins with a call to worship where God summons us by his word to worship him and ends with a benediction as he places his name & blessing upon us as we go out into the world. Each Sunday we have a reading of the Law where we are reminded of God’s will for our lives as well as how far short we fall of the glory of God. This is followed by corporate & private confession of sin and an assurance of God’s forgiveness for us in Christ. We often confess our faith by using the Apostles’ or Nicene Creed, thus uniting ourselves with Christians throughout the ages. This is followed by a pastoral prayer, asking for the Lord’s blessing upon the gospel, his people, and the world. There is the preaching of God’s word, featuring an exposition of the text of Scripture showing how it points to the person and work of Christ. We observe the Lord’s Supper weekly as God more fully declares and seals to us all the promises of the gospel in a physical and tangible way.