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OUR VISION OF WORSHIP
The Holy Scripture summons us: “Come let us worship
and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture,
and the sheep of His hand.” Psalm 95:6. God is the soul’s
greatest good and enjoying Him is our greatest pleasure.
In worship we acknowledge our dependence upon God, Who, in
Jesus Christ, manifests His love to us. While worshipping
God through Jesus Christ, we return our love to Him.
OUR PRIORITIES OF WORSHIP
The Lord’s Day worship is first and foremost to be God-centered,
therefore, worship must be faithful to Scripture, universal in thought,
with the congregation involved, and not adapted to the world.
God-centered worship adopts God’s ways even when they confront culture.
These priorities of worship portray the transcendent majesty of God and
His holiness to His people for their joy and edification. From such
worship, believers go into the world better prepared to impact it for
Christ and for His glorious kingdom.
God-centeredness
We put a high priority on the vertical focus of our Lord’s Day worship.
The ultimate aim is to honor and magnify God in such a way that He is
glorified in our minds, affections, and will. God-centered worship
expects the awe-filled experience of rejoicing in the presence of a Holy God.
Faithful to Scripture
God reveals Himself to us in His Holy Word and also reveals how He
wants to be worshipped. Our worship service strives to be faithful to
the words of Scripture so that God is magnified through His Holy Word.
Universal in Thought
The church worships as “one, holy, catholic, and Apostolic” church.
It is one body in Christ, holy in that it belongs to God, catholic
(meaning universal) in that it brings many nationalities into one
new family, and Apostolic in that it is built on the faith of our
fathers. We worship today as those who have worshipped before us.
Congregation Involved
All are to actively participate in corporate worship. God alone
is to be worshipped by all of His people together as true worshippers.
Through prayers, songs, offerings, and attentiveness to God’s Word, everyone,
including children, is to be involved in the worship service as the body of
believers, together worshipping Him in faith. God delights in His people
worshipping Him as the Family of God in the Spirit of Unity.
Counter to the World’s Culture
We desire that worship be nourished by a living faith, rooted and
grounded in truth. We believe that there is much to resist in a
market-driven pop culture that attempts to repackage God as a
commodity for consumption. Rather than compromising the Church’s
worship to make it relevant to the world, we believe that worshippers
should be changed by submitting to God and His ways. We desire for our
worship to produce more fervency for God as His saints participate in worship.
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