Practices: Worship

Worship is the collection of community practices that Christians do together to reenact and participate in the story we believe is true about God, the world, and our place in it all.

Biblical Practices that Make Up the Ritual of Christian Worship

1. Gathering on the First Day of the Week as “The Lord’s Day”
2. Communion
3. The Public Reading and Teaching of Scripture
4. Prayer
5. Giving and Mutual Sharing
6. Exercise of Spiritual Gifts
7. Singing & Music

Recommended reading

• Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative by Robert E. Webber
• Story of Christianity: Volume 1, The: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation by Justo L. Gonzalez