Our Liturgy: “…to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” (Acts 2:42)
Our worship is biblical. As a community of faith, we must “contend earnestly for the faith” (Jude 3). And in an age of biblical illiteracy, our entire worship service is filled with Scripture texts and Scriptural allusions in every aspect, from our responses, to our prayers, to the reading of Scripture itself.
Our worship is liturgical. As a community of faith, worship is a corporate experience in which we all make our way together into God’s presence, as we confess our sins, as we respond in praise and thanksgiving, and as we hear God’s Word.
Our worship is covenantal. As a community of faith, the purpose of worship is to meet with our God in order to “proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9); not to be entertained, not to draw a large crowd, and not to be an evangelistic crusade.
Our worship is reverent. As a community of faith, we worship a God who is “Holy, holy, holy” (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8). Because of that the attitude of biblical worship is to be with “reverence and awe” (Hebrews 12:28), as we “worship and bow down” (Psalm 95:6) and “rejoice with trembling” (Psalm 2:11).
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