Worship
Corporate worship is an encounter with the living God where He works for, in, and through His people (Heb. 12:28–29).
Because God promises to meet His people as we gather in the name of Christ (Matt. 18:20), we at Oakland Hills Community Church are eager to assemble in Christ’s name around the gifts that He has given to help us to grow in assurance, comfort, and holiness. So, we are a church focused on God’s ordained means of grace, namely Word, sacrament, and prayer. Through the Scripture, the signs given to confirm the Scripture, and our way of responding directly to God, we believe Christ most pointedly works to build us up for life with Him.
The patterns of the Christian life include praising God, confessing our sin, believing the gospel, and then living in holy gratitude for what we receive in the gospel. Our worship trains us how to walk through these routine features of walking with Christ so that we learn to have praise, repentance, trust, and thankfulness engrained increasingly into our hearts. We celebrate communion every Lord’s Day morning because the Lord’s Supper confirms how Christ was given for you and comes to us for spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.
What is the worship service like?
Worship is an encounter with God to be helped and trained for life with him. God speaks to us through His Word, He confirms his Word by His sacraments, and we respond to Him in prayer – both spoken and in song. We rejoice that God has promised to meet us, so our worship is joyful as well as reverent. We give good attention to the reading and preaching of the holy Scripture. We celebrate communion every Lord’s Day in morning worship, remembering that Christ has given Himself for us to reconcile us to God and continually gives himself to us for our spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.