Family Togetherness

This is the eighth (and final!) column in a series I’m writing to describe our goals and values for corporate worship. So far, I’ve said that we want our worship gatherings to be God-centered, cross-centered, and Scripture-saturated. We also value congregational...

Musical Variety & Breadth

This is the seventh column in a series I’m writing to describe our goals and values for corporate worship. If you’ve not noticed by now, let me point out how these explanations are structured. Each value discussion begins with a series of “we believe” statements,...

Congregational Participation

What are the values that unite us in our corporate worship? For what are we aiming when we gather together on Sunday morning? For the last several weeks, I’ve been answering these questions, one value at a time. So far, I’ve explained that we want our worship...

God-Centered Worship

Last week’s column was a meditation on the fact that, according to the New Testament, all of life is worship. Yet it remains true that our Sunday gathering is uniquely devoted to activities and attitudes of worship in a corporate sense. So what qualities characterize...