What We Believe about Worship

Worship is the eternal activity of the child of God. Christian nurture and sanctification (growing up spiritually according to God's design and purpose) will be completed in the new heavens and new earth (Revelation 21:1-4). Christian witness and evangelism will end at the consummation (bringing to completion) of the present age and the final judgment. Worship will never end. In fact at that time, it will become the everlasting joy and focus of the believer.

This being the case, we see worship not as simply one thing we do, but rather the thing we do – it is practice for eternity! We believe our corporate gathering together to give worship and praise to our God is the most important thing we do each week. We believe then that there is a way to worship God that pleases Him and this is our goal: to please God, the audience of One to whom all our worship is directed.

Our worship does not seek to be relevant so much as it seeks to be biblical. Jesus says in John 4:23 that "true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him."  In this light we seek to use song, liturgy (corporate prayers and statement of creeds), sacrament (baptism and observance of the Lord's Supper), and the preached Word as tools to help the people of CPC worship God in a glorifying manner.

Our music is a blending of traditional hymnody with newer music whose words carefully reflect our faith convictions. Since we see the Sacraments as a means of grace (similar in that way to prayer, preaching, and fellowship), we embrace the Lord’s Supper as a regular, vital, and sweet practice in our weekly worship.

We also believe that while children are a blessing, not all children are ready to sit through an entire worship service. While many of our covenant children do stay for the entire worship, we also offer a “children’s church” each Sunday for ages 3-8 years old.