We enjoy high-energy, contemporary worship. We fashion our corporate worship services to provide an uplifting, inspirational experience for you. The Bible is our guide to worship methods. Here are a few of the Biblical reasons for our worship styles in our services. If you would like more detailed information than this, check out Our Beliefs or Contact Us.
Here is why we...
Clap our hands
"Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy." Psalm 47.1 [NIV]
Lift our hands in worship
"Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place." Psalm 28.2 [NIV]
"I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands." Psalm 63.4 [NIV]
"Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD." Psalm 134.2 [NIV]
"May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice." Psalm 141.2 [NIV]
Praise audibly
"Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise--the fruit of lips that confess his name."
Hebrews 13.15 [NIV]
Sing choruses, hymns, and spiritual songs
"Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. 19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord." Ephesians 5.18-19 [NIV]
Anoint with oil and pray for sick
"Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil
in the name of the Lord." James 5.14 [NIV]
Experience the Holy Spirit
"Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines." 1 Corinthians 12.7-11 [NIV]
Pray corporately
"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven." Matthew 18.19 [NIV]
"When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. 'Sovereign Lord,' they said, 'you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.'" Acts 4.24 [NIV]
Dance
"David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the LORD with all his might, 15 while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets." 2 Samuel 6.14-15 [NIV]
"Then maidens will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow." Jeremiah 31.13 [NIV]
