Our Worship

We believe that God has commanded that one day in seven be set apart for the public worship of Him and that this day, since the resurrection of Christ is the first day of the week known as “the Lord’s Day.” We worship God in the morning and in the evening on the Lord’s Day because we believe this to be the pattern of worship given to us in the Scriptures (2 Chron. 13:10-12; Ps. 92:1)

We believe that God desires to be approached according to His terms in worship. He dictates those terms in the Bible, and they are summarized in what is known as the biblical “Regulative Principle of Worship.”  The principle states that in public worship “whatever God has not commanded is forbidden.”  This principle is stated in Deuteronomy 12:32.

Our worship consists of the historic, biblical, and reformed elements of the reading and preaching of the Word of God, the administration of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, prayer, the singing of the Psalms a cappella, and the presentation of tithes and offerings. 

The center of the worship service is the preaching of God’s Word, where the Whole Counsel of God is explained and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed.

The biggest difference that people notice about our worship is the singing.  We only sing the Psalms of the Bible. In the Bible we see no clear warrant to sing uninspired songs. And in the New Testament we only see clear warrant to sing the inspired psalms, hymns, and songs found in the Book of Psalms (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16). We believe the Psalms are about Jesus Christ and that they are the Word of Jesus Christ (Luke 24:44-45; 1 Peter 1:10-12). The Psalms fill our worship with a rich depth of human emotion and an authentic response of praise to the Lord.  We also sing a cappella or without the use of any instruments. We believe that the use of instruments in public worship was tied to the Old Testament sacrificial system and that with the final sacrifice of Jesus Christ their use in public worship ceased (2 Chron. 29:25-30; Heb. 9:11-15). We do not strive to be different.  We only seek to worship God in the way that God commanded us in the Scriptures.