Worship And praise

Worship is the Christians’ response to all that they are – mind, emotions, will, body – and who God is and says and does.  In the context of congregational worship, worship is preaching, it’s praying, it’s fellowship and it’s truth set to music – all of which bring our minds to understand God rightly and then set our hearts aflame to worship Him.  The result is undistracted praise of God in singing, talking and living.

Jesus says, in John 4, that the Father is seeking for people to worship Him in spirit and truth.  The desire for FBC’s worship team is to help the body do this.  The personal goal of the worship leaders is to lead a time of complete, undistracted praise to our great God on high. Worship is driven by truth.  Singing can prepare us to hear the Word preached and is used as a response to the Word.  The Word is the centerpiece of the service, and the time singing is a form of response. Worship lyrics must be theologically precise and function as an extension of the formal preaching time. Worship is always driven by truth and should be God-centered, Gospel-centered and personally reflective.