As a church we are on somewhat of a Worship Journey! As a fellowship we are quite diverse in our experiences and expectations when it comes to gathering together to worship.
This is reflected in our expressions of worship. Rather that try and encompass all styles of worship each time we meet, we are seeking to embrace our differences over the whole month. So during the mornings we are seeking to become more contemporary in our worship, but this does not mean that we don’t love to sing some great old Hymns!
Our evening services are very diverse, each week we enjoy a different ‘flavour’ of worship.
The First Sunday evening we gather together for worship, word and to share communion. This is definitely a more worshipful approach to worship with plenty of time to just meet with God and experience His love.
The Second Sunday evening is ‘FRESH’ where we are exploring different ways to express our gathered experience. Worship during these gatherings is more contemporary and generally more raucous!
Our Third Sunday evenings can be either teaching evenings or creative prayer events.
The fourth afternoon (3.30pm) Is our Traditional Service where we sing those great Hymns of old.
The fifth evening (when there is one!) is our ‘pull all the stops out’ Contemporary worship service. Loud and lively – it’s a time to let you hair down and give God all you’ve got!
What’s the point, anyway?
Richard Wurmbrand was a Lutheran pastor in Romania during the Cold War era. (And spent 14 years in communist prisons for the privilege.) He was once asked by a skeptic, ‘Why does God demand we praise him? Why does he need it?’
Wurmbrand replied, ‘He doesn’t need it. It is we who have need to praise him.’
Worship of God should be a way of life. You are never more fully human than when you abandon yourself to seek out fully the face of the one true God. It is, put simply, to become preoccupied with God rather than yourself.
It is the one powerful painkiller that has only positive side effects, and no risk of overdose. Your pain and problems may not disappear, but you will find deeper meaning and purpose in your life, and greater strength to cope.