Unity in Worship

God Centeredness - There is a high priority on the vertical focus of our Sunday morning service.  The ultimate aim is to so experience God that He is glorified in our affections.

Expecting the Powerful Presence of God - We do not just direct ourselves toward Him, we earnestly seek His drawing near according to the promise of James 4:8, "Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you..."  We believe that in worship, God draws near to us in power and makes Himself known and felt for our good and for the salvation of unbelievers in our midst.

Bible Based and Bible Saturated - The content of our singing, praying, welcoming, preaching, and poetry will always conform to the truth of Scripture.  The content of God's Word is woven through all we do in worship and will be the ground of all our appeals to authority.

Head and Heart - Worship aims at kindling and carrying deep, strong, and real emotions toward God but does not manipulate people's emotions by failing to appeal to clear thinking about spiritual things based on sharable evidences outside ourselves.

Earnestness and Intensity - We avoid a trite, flippant, superficial, and frivolous atmosphere.  Instead, we strive to set an example of reverence, passion, and wonder.

Authentic Communication - We seek to utterly renounce all shame and deceit, pretence, affectation, and posturing.  We avoid the atmosphere of artistic and oratorical performance.  Instead we seek to cultivate the atmosphere of a radically personal encounter with God and Truth.

Spirit of Love - We believe a spirit of love for one another is not incompatible with but necessary to authentic worship.

Undistracting Excellence - We strive to sing and play, preach and pray in such a way that people's attention will not be diverted from the substance by shoddy ministry.  Natural undistracting excellence will let the truth and beauty of God shine through.

The Use of Historic and Contemporary Music - We use lyrics that lift high the name of Christ based on Matthew 13:52, "And he said to them, 'Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.'"