We desire genuine adoration or true worship that:

1. Glorifies God
2. Edifies the body of Christ (Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16)
3. Magnifies the message of salvation through Christ alone (1 Corinthians 14:24-25)

• Reformed worship is God-centered and governed by the biblical guidelines given to us through scripture alone. In our worship, we seek to be connected to the best of the past without becoming idolatrous of the past (i.e., traditional, not traditionalism), contextualized in the present without allowing pop-culture to dictate our approach to worship, and establishing worship that sets a standard for the future.

• Drawing from all the bounty that God has given to His church, from the rich musical and liturgical traditions that have come down to us from our past to the exciting new movements of God today, enables us to set a worship “feast” or “banquet” before the people of God–a well-balanced “meal” to strengthen the body of Christ and keep her healthy spiritually.

We meet weekly for worship on Sunday mornings at 11 AM.

To really get a sense of our what worship is like at Grace you’ll probably want to visit, but if you’d like to understand a bit more about why we do what we do, you can read the following paragraphs.

Music

When people ask about our “worship style”, we don’t really know how to answer. Lets see if we can try to describe it a bit…

We sing lots of hymns that were written hundreds of years ago, but not because there’s anything especially holy about an old song. Rather, the benefit of time has allowed the best and most beautiful songs to rise to the surface over a period of several hundred years. The average ones have simply fallen out of use. When we sing these hymns, we usually don’t sing the traditional tunes. There’s been a movement recently to put the lyrics of the older hymns to music that’s more reflective of our culture’s aesthetic sensibilities. That makes sense to us. So lot’s of songs we sing are old words with new music. In addition we also sing new songs. Lot’s of times, the newer songs are based directly on the words of scripture.

Sometimes people have very strong opinions about music in worship. You’ve got the hymns and pipe organ only crowd. You’ve got the laser-light rock show crowd. Jesus said God is seeking people to worship him in spirit and in truth. Since he didn’t mention anything about musical genre, we believe he’s pleased when people from all kinds of different sub-cultures sing his praises in their own musical language. For Grace, this means a lot of our music has been performed with vocalists, pianos, and guitars. A mandolin has been known to make an appearance or two.

Liturgy

Our worship is Liturgical. This means it follows a form. There are moments in the service when we pray written prayers together as a community. There are also times in the service reserved for silent reflection and prayer. There are moments when we listen to God’s word being read or taught and others when we’re given time to greet one another. We use ancient prayers and confessions as well as newer ones. You’ll notice most of what we say and do is based directly on passages from the Bible. That’s pretty important to us as well.