PhilipTeaching2What is relevant worship?

Relevant worship is not routine, which is why we try to "keep people guessing" about what they might experience from one Sunday morning to the next. Many people who have been involved in churches for years know that during their church's worship service things are going to follow a normal routine. But we've seen how these routines often cause people to "check out" for about an hour on Sundays and miss what God is doing or what He might want to say to them. So we place a high value on keeping our worship fresh and new. We work hard at including creative elements that may catch you off guard, and we design the services so you don't always know what's coming next.

Relevant worship also includes upbeat, exciting, reflective music, which may sound like the music you listen to on the radio or a CD during the week. That doesn't mean we won't include some familiar hymns occasionally during worship, but while the words may be the same the music could be very different!

Relevant worship includes engaging, helpful teaching. Thus we not only try to explain what the Bible means (if a certain passage is not easy to understand), but also give great attention to what we should do with what God has said--how we can apply that to our lives in this new millennium.

Relevant worship is like a celebration; it's something people are actually excited about attending!

We believe relevant worship actually helps us to focus on, hear from, and respond to God so that we can experience the life He desires for us!

Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship…. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration. John 4:23-24 (MSG)