We believe that the Bible is God’s authoritative Law-Word and is primarily a revelation of Himself to a fallen and sinful mankind. Therefore, it is our only infallible rule for faith and practice. Through the Scriptures, the Holy Spirit reveals all we need to know for life and godliness. For the redeemed, those saved by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone, new life in Christ overflows in reverent, joyful worship. Since worship of the thrice Holy God will be our anthem and occupation for eternity, corporate worship constitutes the pinnacle of our week each Lord’s Day. We invite you to join us each week as God calls us to worship Him and celebrate Christ’s finished work of redemption.
When you worship with us you will notice that our worship is…
Biblical and Reformed
Jesus declared that “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24). Christ’s Church must provide Biblical warrant for every thing we do as a congregation, especially in worship. This Scriptural teaching is summarized best by the Westminster Confession of Faith which says,
“But the acceptable way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture.”
trinitarian and Covenantal: Word, Sacrament, and Prayer
Our services of public worship are holy meetings between the Triune God and His redeemed covenant people. As such, our focus is on the primary means of grace: The Word, Sacraments (Baptism and the Lord’s Supper), and Prayer. This is how the risen Jesus Christ nourishes His covenant people as they sojourn through this life together. The Good Shepherd, by His Spirit, feeds us through the reading, preaching, singing, and application of His own Holy Word, to the glory of God the Father.
“That stone is made head corner-stone,
which builders did despise:
This is the doing of the Lord,
and wondrous in our eyes.
This is the day God made, in it
we’ll joy triumphantly.
Save now, I pray thee, Lord; I pray,
send now prosperity.
Blessed is he in God’s great name
that cometh us to save:
We, from the house which to the Lord
pertains, you blessed have.”
On the Lord’s Day or Christian Sabbath
When Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He did so on the first day of the week. He appeared to His disciples on the first day until the ascension, establishing the day as His own (see John 20:1, 16-29; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10). He then poured out the Holy Spirit on the church at Pentecost, again on the first day. For this reason we believe that the risen Christ calls His people to gather for public worship on the first day of every week, to remember and rest in His completed work, as well as anticipate His coming return and our eternal rest in His glorious presence.
Christ Honoring and exalting
Scripture teaches that because of Christ’s perfect, completed work of redemption, “God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father,” Philippians 2:9–11 (ESV). Exalting the name of Jesus is our aim in all we do, for it is our highest calling and chief end. During worship our hearts and minds are directed to Jesus, our Prophet, Priest, and King who is sitting on His throne at the right hand of the Father.
“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”