Our Worship

God himself initiates, perfects, and receives the worship that the Church offers to him. He calls us to himself through Jesus Christ, speaking to us through his Word which he confirms by his sacraments, and granting us the gifts of faith, repentance and love by which we may respond appropriately. Worship is a gift from God, a fruit of our salvation, a foretaste of heaven, the primary means through which God instructs his people in the truth as well as a culmination of the knowledge of God (cf. Ps 27:4; 63:1-2; 73:17; 84:10). Therefore, we draw near to God in a manner appropriate to how God has drawn near to make of us a people for his name: our worship is Trinitarian, scriptural, responsive, reverent and full of joy.

Trinitarian

We approach God our Father through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. There is no other way to come to the Father. Therefore, we worship the Father together with the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God and Savior forever.

Scriptural

The worship of the triune God is a participation in God's revelation concerning himself. Worship is an expression of theological conviction, not a product of imagination or a matter of taste. The Bible, given through holy men by God's Spirit, brings to our remembrance the acts of God our Father, and his will for us in our Lord Christ Jesus. The word of God is a living and transforming power, and is intended by God to pervade the thoughts and to direct the desires of his people, to equip us for all of life. These holy scriptures fill our sermons, our prayers and our songs.

Responsive

Worship is a communion of the triune God with his people. When his servants preach to his people, when they administer the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper, it is God's word they are to speak, and they perform the visible aspect of God's invisible actions. When the people respond with thankful singing, earnest prayer, and cheerful giving, it is God working in them both to will and to do these things because it pleases him to draw us to himself.

Reverent and Joyful

Because God is holy we approach him with reverence and awe. Our services are orderly, oriented toward God, and reflect our awareness that because we are brought together in worship by the Holy Spirit, the one God, we are lifted up into the very presence of the triune God in heaven. The thanks we offer to God are beautified by his own holiness, through participation in the death and the risen life of Jesus Christ, given for us. The joy that belongs to knowing this Lord and Savior is both solemn and very full indeed.

As a Family

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, calls us into worship of God our Father. The children whom God has given to us share with us in His love and faithfulness, through the faith into which they along with us have been baptized - that is, faith in the one name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. They join with us in worship of the one God, according to the promises he has made to us concerning them, to be their God. He is the true God and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

We also offer an excellent and safe nursery to assist families.