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Why We Worship

What Is Worship?

Worship engages the faithful and the hesitant from diverse personal pilgrimages in their relationship with God, with one another, and with God’s creation through the joyful and expectant act of prayer. Whether praise or petition, lament or longing, prayer in worship seeks God’s voice and movement through silence, song, sacrament, and sermon. 

Why Do We Worship?
  • To acknowledge that God alone is sovereign over creation
  • To acknowledge that we are not God; and therefore,
  • To listen to God’s call to us in and through our lives.

Toward that end: We gather together as a community of faith 
  • to give praise in all things to our God of grace in all things
  • to share our confessions and petitions, our joys and concerns, with God and one another
  • to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ, that the commonwealth (kingdom) of God is among us 
  • to respond in trust to the Good News sacramentally, by reaffirming our baptisms, breaking the bread of new life, and sharing the cup of forgiveness
  • to respond in trust to the Good News socially, by committing to bear it anew to God’s hurting world.

What Makes Worship at BPC Happen?

The Holy Spirit -- through the people, the space, the light, the ritual, the movement, the familiar prayers, the new prayers, the music, the silence, the sharing, the words, and the Word.

Regardless of who or where you are on life’s journey, you are always welcome to worship with us at Bethesda Presbyterian Church!

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Chuck Booker-Hirsch

Sunday 3/14: "Our Prodigal Father"

Ever hear of the Prodigal Son? Certainly. This Sunday, we focus on his extravagantly wasteful father, running to welcome him home. With that image in mind, all are invited, post-Worship, to join us for a served lunch in our Fellowship Hall for new member Gail Hutchison's riveting personal story, "From Strive to Survive to Thrive." Gail, a Potomac native, has served 20 years in the Outer Banks of NC as a sexual assault services coordinator, running to welcome the wounded home in her prodigally ge… Continue

Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on March 11, 2010 at 2:48am

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11 am Worship 3/7: "Listening for God: Why *Not* Me?"

This Sunday's gospel scripture -- heard the world 'round that very day by disciples and seekers of every tongue and land -- is a difficult one for many to understand. Luke 13:1-9 seems to cast a judgmental eye on those who do not repent of their ways. But this scripture is not a promise of punishment. It's a needed Lenten dose of reality, to wit: Instead of asking God, "Why me?" when bad times befall us, we can best listen for God's desire in our lives by asking, "Why not me?" Instea

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Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on March 5, 2010 at 11:00pm

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