Worship

"And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers." - Acts 2:42

Our Sunday worship services are the primary gatherings of FPC as we honor the Lord's Day and celebrate the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our services are traditional, meaning that they are rooted in biblical and historic patterns and practices of worship. Each service begins with God summoning us into His presence through a call to worship and ends with God dismissing us with His blessing in the benediction. In addition to the weekly elements of worship seen below, we also regularly confess our faith using one of the church's historic confessions, confess our sins, and receive assurance of God's forgiveness.


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Singing

"Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!" - Psalm 95:1


Each Sunday, God is honored and exalted (Psalm 22:3), and we are encouraged and built up (Eph. 5:18-22), as we sing praises to the Lord. Our church primarily sings psalms and hymns from the Trinity Hymnal.

Prayer


"I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling." 1 Timothy 2:8


Each Sunday, we pray together as the body of Christ.


The Preaching of the Word

"Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching." - 2 Timothy 4:2

Each Sunday, the Word of God is proclaimed with special attention on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Offerings


"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich." -2 Corinthians 8:9


Offerings are an act of worship, faith, gratitude, and dependence. Through offerings, we offer back to God what is already His.


Sacraments

Baptism and the Lord's Supper were instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ as the sacraments of the new covenant. Sacraments are signs and seals of the covenant of grace. As signs, the sacraments are "visible words" that represent God's work. As seals, the sacraments are means the Holy Spirit uses in the growth of the spiritual life of believers.


Baptism


"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." - Matthew 28:19-20


In baptism, believers and their children are marked out as disciples of Jesus Christ and members of his visible church. Also, God's grace in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the new birth, and the cleansing of sin is represented through the visible means of water applied in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.


Baptism is applied to new believers, who have not been baptized previously, and to the small children of believers as a sign of God's covenant promises to be God to us and to our children (Acts 2: 39).


The Lord's Supper


"The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?" - 1 Corinthians 10:16

In the Lord's Supper, Christ invites us to be spiritually nourished by feeding on his body and blood by faith as we partake of the bread and the cup according to His command, example, and promise.


We partake of the Lord's Supper on the last Sunday of each month.