Sunday Worship

10:00 AM

Understanding Our Worship

Worship, teaching, and healing/prayer ministry are the foundational dynamics of our fellowship together each Sunday. This fellowship we share in the Holy Spirit is the fruit of dedicated lives (EPH 2:21- 22; 4:15-16).
The Holy Eucharist is central to our understanding of worship at St. Peter's. Our present practice is to offer two celebrations

Sunday morning at

10:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship Eucharist with Children's Church

The 10:00 a.m. worship time therefore, is less conservative celebration and being more contemporary, offers a ministry of healing, and encourages informality. Both multi-media and creative arts [drama, dance, video, etc.] may be incorporated for the edifying of the Body of Christ through enhancement of the worship and/or teaching.  Many, but not all, of the younger members of our parish participate in this celebration. It is particularly designed with a focus towards families and, because it is offered as a basic entry into the worship life of St. Peter's, we design it to be "user friendly."

What we interpret Sunday mornings at St. Peters to be all about - that being the time when we as a Parish family come together to have our own needs met through sacrament, worship and teaching, while seeking to transform Sunday morning into an opportunity to serve all those whom the Lord draws to this house. It is our intention to impart an understanding of our Sunday service whereby we see it more in the light of taking the servants towel and blessing others. "Our Sunday Service" thereby becomes another service opportunity for Parish members as they offer themselves in gift-based ministry to one another and to all in attendance. Discipleship training and release through worship, word and work is undertaken at a different time, and so we emphasize both home groups and our leadership training for those who desire to grow deeper.

We believe our times of worship to be truly representative of our Anglican tradition and so we do not evaluate one against the other nor do we elevate one above the other: Jesus, as the Living Word, as the Transforming Sacrament, and in His Real and Holy Presence is Host of both celebrations.

The teaching embraced by our celebrations is offered under the direction of Pastor Tim.

At St. Peter's we understand worship to be intimacy with the Father through the sacrifice of the Son and in the ongoing ministry of the Holy Spirit. We consider it imperative then, that our coming before Him is in spirit and truth (JN 4:23-24); ie. in sincerity and openness.

It follows, in our thinking, that there can be no outwardly correct way of worship, for worship is ultimately a matter of the heart, and it is the nature of our heart that matters most to the Lord (DEUT 13:3; 1SAM 16:7; PS 147:10; IS 29:13). We do, however, call for decency and order in our time of worship together (1COR 14:26-33,40).