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Worship and Music
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Worshipping Christ at Hope
Why we worship: We are the children of the living God, who loves
us and has pursued us over all of history - and who came to us in the form of
humanity - as Jesus the Christ, the Messiah. We gather to worship and give
praise to our God, not just because we will "get something out of it" or "it
makes us feel good" but because God is God and is to be praised!
Our style of worship:
Our worship service is perhaps best described as a "blended" style.
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Our music blends many elements -
mostly modern praise and worship music blended with traditional hymns,
meditative prayerful song, and occasionally gospel or folk sounds.
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We blend elements of traditional
liturgy that have been handed down over time with elements of joyous
informality. Elements that ground us solidly and that we share with
the wider church and history, and things that express who we are, today, and
how we understand God working in our lives, in this time and place.
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We encourage involvement -
worship is a ministry of the people, all the children of God, all ages. So
our worship includes children, youth and adults, and all may be involved in
our prayers, readings, music, communion celebration, etc.
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The Web Team is presently meditating carefully about the contents and
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The group "Lost and Found" - guest musicians in 2007 |
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Another visiting music group - The Williams Family |
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Kids and Puppets at the Christmas Pageant, Dec 2006 |
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Sermons
Pastor Scott and Mission Developer Carrie both deliver sermons at Hope, as do
guest pastors and lay preachers.
Pastor Scott often, but not always, writes out the sermons
then delivers them either without notes or from an outline. So the texts
below are not exactly how they were delivered. And if it wasn't fully
written out, it isn't here to read... (and he doesn't always remember to post
them here, either)
Please keep in mind that it is rather hard to hear humor, emphasis, irony, rhetorical questions and
things like that in written words, especially if they were written to be spoken
aloud by the person that wrote them.
Pastor Scott's Sermons
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