1. Worship is Christ Centered
– the central truth under which the others are
subsumed

“Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship (which is our greatest hope for satisfaction and joy) than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing will bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts beside the Christ of God.”

• Our aim is to so experience Christ through the Scriptures by the Holy Spirit that God the Father is glorified in our affections
• God is God-centered and will not give his glory to another. Leviticus 10:1-7 reminds us it is a solemn undertaking to enter the presence of a holy God
• Worship is the passion for treasuring God as infinitely valuable; the spiritual thirst for God alone (Isaiah 55)
• God’s glory is the goal
  • Isaiah 43:6-7, Jeremiah 13:11
  • John 17:1, Romans 15:7-8
  • II Thessalonians 1:9-10
• Our call is to manifest the worth of this glory to the watching world: Psalm 96:3, 117:1
• Our worship is guided by the Holy Spirit and based on the revealed Word (we worship in spirit and in truth – John 4:24)
• Our services are not intended to be “seeker” services in the modern usage of the term, because God is the central figure in worship. On the other hand, we hope that we have a congregation of “seekers” who come to worship recognizing that our need can only be met in the God who pursues and seeks us. Christ in fact came as the True Seeker, to seek and to save that which was lost – us.