The most powerful thing the church does is worship. Every single week, on the Lord's Day, God himself graciously gathers his people together renewing his covenant with them and serving them.
Every Christian church follows a liturgy—an order of worship or schedule of services—on the Lord’s day. Liturgy simply means the “service of the people.” CRC follows a covenant renewal pattern of worship that is God-centered, gospel-shaped, and covenant-minded. Based on, and full of, Scripture, Covenant Renewal Worship is a service full of God speaking and His people responding in five movements that shape our life.
Every Christian church follows a liturgy—an order of worship or schedule of services—on the Lord’s day. Liturgy simply means the “service of the people.” CRC follows a covenant renewal pattern of worship that is God-centered, gospel-shaped, and covenant-minded. Based on, and full of, Scripture, Covenant Renewal Worship is a service full of God speaking and His people responding in five movements that shape our life.
God Calls
Every Lord’s Day, God calls His people from every tribe, tongue and nation to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Those who trust Him joyfully obey this call and respond with singing psalms, hymns,
and spiritual songs (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16).
and spiritual songs (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16).
God Cleanses
Having come into the presence of a holy God, we respond as all the faithful saints of old did when encountering God. We fall on our face and confess our sins and need for mercy. We confess our private sins privately, and then the whole church confesses our general sins generally, seeking his forgiveness in prayer. The minister then reminds us, that in and because of Christ, God forgives our sins and remembers them no more.
God Consecrates
Having had our sins forgiven, we are then ready to come even nearer to God in worship, so we sing His praises as He brings us closer and speaks to us from His Word about who He is, who we are, and what He promises and expects from us. The purpose of the sermon is to inform our minds, reform our hearts, and transform our lives according to God's word. After being instructed in God’s law and renewed by God’s grace to us in the gospel, we, in turn, bring our tithes and offerings in response. After bringing our monetary offerings, as a nation of priests, we then bring members of our church, the community, and the world before God in prayer, and finally we confess the faith we share with other Christians all over the world and throughout time by reciting or singing one the historic Christian creeds.
God Communes
Having been called, cleansed, and consecrated, God then invites every member of His family to his Table to feed them and give them the strength they need to do what He’s called them to do. At CRC, we believe that Christ’s Table does not belong to any one branch of the Christian Church, so, along with Christ, we invite any and everyone who has been baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit to come and commune with God and His people in peace.
God Comissions
And finally, having been fed from God’s Word and at His Table, God then sends His people out into the world with a final commission to do His will, for His glory and the life of the world.