Worship
Our worship services are for an audience of ONE. We are the performers. Each week our corporate worship draws us to personal engagement with God, so that we can intentionally live out our worship of God in daily life. In our minds worship is not simply a Sunday morning act such as singing a song, giving an offering or receiving Communion. Instead it is a life lived with awareness of God, fully surrendered to loving and pleasing Him in all that we do and say. We strive to create an atmosphere that will open our hearts to the awareness of God. With His presence in our lives, healing and celebration are involuntary. We bow down in surrender to our Savior. Accepting His love for us. Accepting His healing for us, which results in celebration, and this goes on cycle after cycle after cycle.
Hungry to know more of Him.
Earl Peoples
Music Minister
Though we sing with the tongues of men and angels, if we are not truly worshipping the living God, we are noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. Though we organize the service most beautifully, if it does not enable us to worship the living God, we are mere ballet-dancers. Though we repave the parking lot and reface the stonework, though we balance our budgets and attract all the visitors, if we are not worshipping God, we are nothing. Worship is humble and glad; worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God’s truth, not its own. True worship doesn’t put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn’t forced, isn’t half-hearted, doesn’t keep looking at its watch, doesn’t worry what the person in the next seat may be doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
Worship will never end; whether there be buildings, they will crumble; whether there be committees, they will fall asleep; whether there be budgets, they will add up to nothing. For we build for the present age, we discuss for the present age, and we pay for the present age; but when the age to come is here, the present age will be done away. For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.
Pastiche of 1 Cor. 13 taken from “For All God’s Worth True Worship and the Calling of the Chruch” by NT Wright