Music Ministry
Christians have gathered every Sunday morning, the first day of the week, for almost 2000 years. Traditionally, we have spoken of this time as our “worship service” and rightly so. Everything that we do is directed for the praise, honor, and worship of our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ the Lord, through the Holy Spirit. As a worship service, all of our activities must be God-centered, making God and not man the ultimate consumer of our sermons and songs. He is the sole recipient of our praise. Hence, “our worship must emphasize the way we appear before God, rather than the way we appear before men.”[i]
Statement of Worship
We will, in worship, acknowledge and proclaim the immutable holiness of the everlasting God. (Rev 4:8)
We will focus our attention in worship upon the splendor of His attributes and deeds in such a way as to underscore the supreme worthiness of God alone to receive all “glory and honor and power.” (Revelation 4:11)
We will seek not to rob God of His glory. We will ascribe to God the glory that is due His name, understanding that He is the Lord and that He does not give His glory to another nor His praise to graven images. (Psalm 29:1, 2; Isaiah 42:8)
We will purpose to worship the Lord in humility avowing our dependent position before Him, responding to the Lord with thanksgiving and praise, blessing His name “for the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.” (Genesis 24:48; Psalm 100:4-5)
We will honor God’s Word as the standard by which all of our worship is governed and the truth to which, in worship, we respond. We will worship the Lord not in the outward position of place but from our inward position in Christ. We will worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. (John 4:20-24)
We will approach the Lord, in worship, with gladness and rejoicing for His gracious provision, having clothed us with the garments of salvation and covered us with the robe of righteousness. (Isaiah 61:10; Philippians 3:8)
We will encourage worship in both the corporate assembling of believers and in the intimacy of private communion with God. (Hebrews 10:25; Luke 5:16)
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[i] Izard, Bill. The Sensitivity of True Worship. Christian Communicators Worldwide, 1994.
