The Vision for Worship Ministry

In addition to the over-arching mission, vision, and values of Glory of Christ Baptist Church, the Worship Ministry has the following:

Values Specific to Worship Ministries:

1. God-centeredness: We put a high priority of the vertical focus of our Sunday morning service. The ultimate aim is to experience God in such a way that he is glorified in our affections.
2. 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. 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.
3. Bible-based and Bible-saturated: The content of our singing and praying and welcoming and preaching and poetry should always conform to the truth of Scripture. But more than that, the content of God's Word should be woven through all we do in worship and will be the ground of all our appeal to authority.
4. Head and heart: The elements of our worship service should aim at kindling and carrying deep, strong, real emotions toward God, especially joy, but should not manipulate people's emotions by failing to appeal to clear thinking about spiritual things based on shareable evidences outside ourselves.
5. Earnestness and intensity: We will try to avoid being trite, flippant, superficial, or frivolous, but instead will aim to set an example of reverence and passion and wonder and broken-hearted joy.
6. Authentic communication: We utterly renounce all sham, deceit, hypocrisy, pretense, affectation and posturing. We do not pursue the atmosphere of artistic or oratorical performance, but the atmosphere of a radically personal encounter with God and truth.
7. The manifestation of God and the common good: We expect and hope and pray (according to 1 Cor. 12:7) that our focus on the manifesting of God is good for people and that a spirit of love for each other is not incompatible with, but necessary to, authentic worship.
8. Undistracting excellence: We will try to sing and play and pray and preach in such a way that people's attention will not be diverted from the substance by shoddy ministry nor by excessive finesse, elegance or refinement. Natural, undistracting excellence will let the truth and beauty of God shine through. We will invest in equipment good enough to be undistracting in transmitting heartfelt truth.

1. The mingling of historic and contemporary music: No church or service can be all things to all people. But we do not value stylistic narrowness. We believe there are affections owing to God that different tunes and different texts and different genres may awaken better than others. We will strive to be who we are without exalting our own tastes as the standard of excellence or power. We will see God’s guidance in each worship setting to be both indigenous and stretching.

Steps Toward Involvement in Worship Ministries:

1. Church Membership: we require that all worship team members first be members of Glory of Christ, or at least be on that path. We will be glad to explain the process to you, and help you in any way we can.
2. Small group affiliation: we strongly encourage all worship team members to be a vital part of a small group. If you would like more information about current small group opportunities, please contact the church office.
3. Written application and testimony: we ask all prospective members of our worship team to complete an application which includes a personal testimony.
4. Audition: once we process the application and testimony, we audition all prospective worship team members to ascertain their level of musical breadth and competency.
5. Decision: after prayerfully considering your application, testimony, and audition, we will inform you of our decision within seven (7) days of your audition. On occasion it may be necessary to ask prospective team members to wait (anywhere from 6 months to 2 years) before participating in our worship ministries. The reasons for this request may be related to competency, spiritual maturity, personal circumstances, etc. Be assured that we will lovingly and confidentially communicate the reasoning behind our decision. We strongly encourage you to be prayerful and humble as you await our decision. We may lovingly direct you to a place of ministry better suited to your areas of apparent giftedness.
6. Commitment to rehearsals and worship services: we ask that you make every effort to participate in the weekly rehearsal where we refine arrangements and prepare our hearts to lead worship. We typically spend 1 ½ - 2 hours per week in rehearsal and prayer. Then, we ask that you make every effort to arrive at church one hour before the service so that we can perform sound-checks, make any final adjustments, and spend ample time in the Word and prayer.
7. Prayer partner: we strongly recommend that you find a Prayer Partner who will commit to praying for you especially on the Sundays you participate in worship leadership.

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