About Worship

Worship is about honoring God

Psalm 150 cries out, “Let everything… praise the Lord!” In worship, that translates into services that reflect a wide variety of musical, dramatic, and visual arts. This expression is shaped by a core conviction that worship is about honoring God.

We are committed to artistic excellence and vitality, honoring God through the way we use the gifts and talents. The texts, images, and music all are designed to lift up the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the fullness of God revealed to us visibly and audibly. Because it’s all about honoring God, we collectively participate through responsive readings.  Everyone joins in with their voices.

We are acting together – not merely watching and listening.   In unison we confess our sins, profess our faith and recite the Lord’s Prayer. By doing this together we demonstrate we are more than a collection of individual Christians. Rather, we are all bound with each other in God’s covenant family.

Worship music and liturgy are meant to draw our attention to God in Christ, rather than to themselves. They are intended to build us up spiritually so we are better equipped to bear witness to Jesus Christ in word and action beyond the sanctuary walls. If worship captivates us with the strong sense of God’s goodness and motivates us to love and serve others even as God in Christ has loved and served us, then it will have done what it aims to do.

J. S. Bach, arguably the greatest church musician of all time, signed all his music manuscripts not “JSB” but “SDG” – Soli Deo Gloria, meaning, “To God alone be the glory.”  To this we strive each Sunday at Springdale!