Every congregation has a liturgy for their worship (even if they say they don’t!)
It’s the movements you come to expect in worship, the map that takes you from the “Welcome” at the beginning to the dismissal at the end. At TPC we want to be intentional about shaping our liturgy in such a way that it reflects the place we call home while also lifting us out of our own self-centered-stories and placing us with other Christians of every time and place in God’s big story of rescue. To do that, we follow a very similar order every week. This isn’t because we can’t be creative, but because we believe that the creativity of this liturgy that has been passed down to us actually helps us to grow into gospel rhythms of grace.
Each week our worship makes four movements: The Gathering, The Word, The Table, and The Sending.
We are Gathered by God’s Spirit and called to worship by his word. We lift our voices in song(s) and, in the face of God’s majesty, confess our sin and hear his forgiveness and grace.
God’s grace prepares us for his Word which we receive through the music of our choir, the reading and preaching of Holy Scripture, and the silence of contemplation.
Having heard God’s word for us we then gather around the Table each week to confess our faith to him, to pray for one another and our world, to offer the gifts of our lives and (once a month) to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion.
Finally, we don’t just leave worship but are Sent with a song, charge, and blessing to be an instrument of God’s blessing in the world and a sign of his kingdom until Christ comes again.
