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Whenever Christian believers come together to worship, they create the opportunity for a miracle to occur.  This miracle of corporate worship occurs when a variety of different individuals come together and become one body, with a single mind and purpose.  Perhaps it is the regular reappearance of this “miracle of worship” which enables Christian believers to accept and acknowledge the mystery of the Trinity.  Each time believers become one in worship, they see firsthand how many can be one.

 

The early church built upon this concept of public worship. The early church fathers even described their worship services by using the Greek word liturgy, which means: “the work of the people.” Their intent was clear: worship is to be the avenue which all believers travel to glorify God.

 

We have discovered that public worship is not a presentation by a select few, but rather an activity and effort of the entire congregation. In those settings where once a minister presided and a choir responded, now all worshippers join to participate in prayer, singing, ministering and speaking. The members of these congregations are affirming that worship is what they do together, not what they have done for them. Worship is active, not passive. It is the “work of the people.”

 

The worship expression of the Community of the Holy Spirit is fully liturgical, fully sacramental, fully charismatic and fully evangelical in its expression, its structure and its experience.  The liturgy itself is viewed as the “banks of a river” with the “river or water” being the Holy Spirit.  A river with no banks is nothing more than a flood or chaos.  Conversely, a river with no water is a barren wasteland.  A service without the structure of the liturgy becomes chaos and a liturgy without the Holy Spirit is a barren wasteland.  At Community of the Holy Spirit, we seek to maintain the delicate balance between form (liturgy) and power (Holy Spirit).

 

A fully liturgical/sacramental service has very recognizable elements.  For example we have:

· Communal Prayer

· Reading/Hearing of the Word

· Response of Confession

· Passing of the Peace of Christ

· Eucharist

· Liturgical music

· The Declaration of our Faith

· The Church Year

 

A fully charismatic/evangelical service also has very recognizable elements.  For example we have:

· Dynamic preaching of the Word

· Anointed praise & worship

· Operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit

· Opportunity for repentance and salvation

· Time of personal ministry

 

If corporate worship is “the work of the people,” then the congregation must be active participants in the entire process of worshipping. Those who plan and lead congregations in worship have a responsibility to enable the congregation not only to sing and listen, but also to speak and pray and respond and exhort.

 

At Community of the Holy Spirit we can truly come together in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

WORSHIP AS LITURGY – THE WORK OF THE PEOPLE

Community of the Holy Spirit North America

With The Holy Spirit We Are " Form With Power"!

Phone:  440-946-8636

Fax:  440-946-8646

 

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Email: CHS North America