What is Worship? …
Worship engages the faithful and the hesitant both: those who trust in Jesus and those who wish to trust him more. Each of us has a personal spiritual pilgrimage that is sacred to us - and it’s the act of weaving those pilgrimages together in relationship with God, one another, and all Creation that makes our Worship at Bethesda Presbyterian Church so special. Whether praise or petition, lament or longing: the Prayers of the People we lift up in Worship - lighting a candle for each as go - particularly trace God’s cacophony of mercy and whisper of the Spirit to us as we go.
Why Do We at bethesda presbyterian church Worship?
To celebrate that God alone is sovereign over creation
To acknowledge that we are not God; and therefore,
To listen to God’s call to us through Christ in and through our lives.
Toward that end: Worship takes community!
“I believe because we believe.” The late, great Kenyan-born theologian John Mbiti captures the communal essence of worship well with these words. How can any of us know what we believe until we first experience that we belong? And so at Bethesda Presbyterian Church, our relationships with one another - inseparable from our relationships with God - are everything. Our Worship depends wholly on the quality of our belonging!
What Makes Worship happen at Bethesda presbyterian?
The Holy Spirit! The Spirit breaks forth through the people, the space, the light, the ritual, the movement, prayers new and familiar, the music, the silence, the sharing, the words … The Spirit is synergistic. The Spirit is multiplicative. And despite our controlling efforts otherwise: The Spirit blows where it may.
Regardless of who or where you are on life’s journey: We welcome you to experience the deep peace of belonging by worshiping at Bethesda Presbyterian Church!
