Values Relating to Corporate Worship.pdf

(Bethlehem adopted these values in 1995 as a part of its mission and vision.)

• Practicing a public worship form that communicates the supremacy of God in all of life.
• Pursuing fervent, biblical, Spirit-anointed, God-exalting, personally-helpful preaching.
• Recognizing and experiencing the importance of old and new, historic and current.
• Emphasizing the importance of both head and heart in our worship experience.
• Going hard after God as an all-satisfying end in himself.
• Communicating in large and small group settings with authenticity and transparency.
• Displaying vulnerability with our imperfections that encourages candor, not concealment.
• Being a singing people with growing appreciation for diverse expressions of love for God.
• Creating a place for spontaneity and lay ministry to the body.
• Increasing in a humble willingness to support others whose tastes are different than ours.
• Growing in appreciation of both fine and folk elements in worship.
• Determining to welcome people different from ourselves for the sake of Christ.
• Being more indigenous to the diversity of our metropolitan cultural setting, both urban and suburban.