Principle One: Worship Celebrates Christ

In proclaiming God's saving work through Jesus Christ in song, story, prayer, and thanksgiving, the church glorifies God and extols him for his acts of redemption. Thus it accomplishes Peter's declaration that God's people "may declare the praises of him who called [them] out of darkness into his wonderful light" (1 Pet. 2:9).

Worship Is Based on the History of Salvation

Christian liturgy is patterned on the history of salvation. There is the original initiative of God, who throughout the...

 

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