During our Worship Service you can expect everything we do to be centered on the Word of God. You can see this to be true in our children's sermons, communion, baptisms, and time of offering. However, it is especially recognizable in our prayers, the music we sing, and in our sermons. We desire our Worship Service to be Word-saturated because we firmly believe that this is the primary avenue by which the Holy Spirit transforms hearts.
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Prayer
We have three themed prayers during our Worship Service. Though the worship order may vary from week to week, typically the service is opened with a Scripture reading and a prayer of praise to focus our minds on Who we have come to worship. Then, after a couple of worship songs have been sung, we have a time to humble ourselves before God to confess our sins and thank Him for cleansing us from those sins through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Finally, before the sermon we have a prayer of petition, which is a time to bring global, national, local, and church requests to the throne room of God to seek His grace and mercy to meet our needs. Communion & Baptism
We gather around the Lord's Table together at Cornerstone on the first Sunday of every month. You don't need to be a member at Cornerstone to participate in this ordinance, but you must be a believer. Baptism is the second ordinance we practice at Cornerstone. These two ordinances are not means of earning salvation for the believer, but when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer. |
Music
We have a blended worship, primarily acoustic, that includes the old favorite hymns and the newer contemporary worship songs. The music we sing, whether the old favorites or the newer songs, is Word-saturated and Christ-centered. That's what all worship truly is, directing hearts to praise the Living Word, Jesus Christ. |
The Sermon
At Cornerstone, we believe that the Bible is the Word of God (for more on this see our Statement of Faith). This means we place a huge emphasis on the teaching and preaching of God's Word during our Sunday morning Worship Service. Even the children of Cornerstone get a chance to hear a sermon just for them as they are called up to the front to receive a short message.
You can expect our sermons to be expositional. Mark Dever once defined an expositional sermon as "a sermon in which the point of a biblical text is the point of the sermon, applied to the life of the congregation." In other words, when someone stands behind the pulpit at Cornerstone, it is the preacher's aim to expose what God's Word clearly teaches and help the congregation apply it into their lives! So, the preacher is not someone who makes up his own "message" to tell to other people. Rather, the preacher is like God's mailman, who has God's authoritative message in hand and can explain what that message says to God's intended audience so that they can faithfully obey God's message.
At Cornerstone, we believe that the Bible is the Word of God (for more on this see our Statement of Faith). This means we place a huge emphasis on the teaching and preaching of God's Word during our Sunday morning Worship Service. Even the children of Cornerstone get a chance to hear a sermon just for them as they are called up to the front to receive a short message.
You can expect our sermons to be expositional. Mark Dever once defined an expositional sermon as "a sermon in which the point of a biblical text is the point of the sermon, applied to the life of the congregation." In other words, when someone stands behind the pulpit at Cornerstone, it is the preacher's aim to expose what God's Word clearly teaches and help the congregation apply it into their lives! So, the preacher is not someone who makes up his own "message" to tell to other people. Rather, the preacher is like God's mailman, who has God's authoritative message in hand and can explain what that message says to God's intended audience so that they can faithfully obey God's message.
