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CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR - OUR WORSHIP

Much has been written in recent years about various worship “styles), i.e., “is your church’s worship traditional? Contemporary? Blended”  The Old Testament, particularly in the Psalms, makes clear that the purpose of worship is not to entertain or even bless the one who worships, but that the Almighty God might be exalted, praised and thanked, and that He be blessed by our worship.  Singing, shouting, playing musical instruments, even dancing are all presented in Scripture as suitable means of the worship of God.  The New Testament has nothing to say about a preferred style of corporate worship, but our Lord did address the object of our worship on at least two occasions:

        “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”  ^{Matthew  22:37}

         “The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.  God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 

 ^{John 4:23-24}

Therefore, while the style of corporate worship is not specified in Scripture, the object of our worship is God the Father; the purpose of our worship is to praise and thank Him.  Following the example of the early church, we have added worship in the form of sacrament, liturgy and song offered directly to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.  We freely make use of any number of English translations of the Bible on any given Lord’s Day, seeking only to include the peculiar insights and benefits offered by succeeding generations of honest, faithful Christian scholarship in our corporate celebration.

At C.O.S., our worship style, if one must be defined, is “deliberately eclectic”, drawing on the best of all worship traditions dating back to the Psalms.  We sing contemporary praise songs, classic hymns, and gospel music.  We  utilize the historic Christian creeds, and we often include liturgy from The Book of Common Prayer.  We read much Scripture aloud, and we minister the Lord’s Supper on the last Sunday of each month.  The sound of worship at C.O.S. is, at the present time, acoustic, and we include each week some acapella singing.

At the Church of the Saviour, time is set aside for each worshiper’s preparation for worship.  Above all we seek to worship the triune God in spirit and truth, since He alone is the purpose for our worship and the object of our worship.  That many in the congregation are, in fact, blessed by our worship is seen as a work of God’s grace, as He allows us to share His blessing and to enjoy our privilege as a community of believer-priests to offer up to Him our sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving.  

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