Our Vision for Worship Ministries

Through our corporate worship ministries we seek to worship God in spirit and truth (John 4:24).

We believe the Scriptures teach that the key elements of corporate worship are prayer (1 Tim. 2:1-2), Scripture (1 Tim. 4:13), singing of praise (Eph. 5:19), giving (1 Cor. 16:2), the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor. 11:17-34), and baptism (Matt. 28:19). These elements will characterize our corporate worship services. We believe corporate worship that honors God maintains the preaching of the word of God as its central feature (1 Tim. 4:13-16; 2 Tim. 4:1-4).

Musically our worship will aim for an expression of corporate worship that is conservatively contemporary. We will avoid the idolatry of venerating either antiquity (2 Kings 18:4) or novelty (Acts 17:21). We will not deify the past and demonize the present, nor will we canonize the new and cast aside our heritage. We will employ both the best of the Church’s rich heritage of music, recast for a new generation, and the best of today’s fresh expressions of praise.

We are committed to worship as one body (Rom. 12:4-5), even if in multiple services. To this end we will not offer services with differing styles of music.

We aim not for the comfort of the individual, but for the glory of God joyfully expressed by the whole of His fellowship. We believe that corporate worship provides one of our most obvious opportunities to “look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Phil. 2:4) and, that as we do so, it becomes perhaps our greatest expression of worship to God.