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, our liturgy honors the last 2,000 years of Christianity while adapting to the language and arts of our culture. As participants in the living story of God, we try not to be passive observers during worship but provide ample room to speak aloud and move our bodies as a response to the message. More than emotional arousal or intellectual critique, we seek spiritual formation, a life of submission to the Lordship of Christ.
   

SILENCE is disciplined listening. Even when removed from the world's clamor, the mind is a battlefield of competing voices. So our liturgy begins with this old practice of discerning the still, small voice of God.

FIRE has long symbolized God's presence among his people. We continue this practice by lighting Spirit candles at the Invocation and ushering them out during the Benediction to show that he goes with us into the world for mission.

VISUAL ART graces our sanctuary walls and screens, not as decoration but as windows into God's goodness or as mirrors confronting our sin. In a culture dominated by deformed images, we believe God uses these holy images to renew our imaginations.
   
 
 
 
TAIZE services, second Fridays of the month at 8 p.m., center us in Christ through silence, Scripture meditation, and simple songs.
 
PRAISE him with song and hymn, drum and horn, guitar string and rice egg. Sing a new song, an old song. Sing praise, plea, lament. But let's not make idols of music or muscian. That's why they've chosen to play in the corner, so not to draw attention away from the Lord.
 
LITANY need not be boring. To pray, confess, or affirm truth in unison, powerfully demonstates our unity in spirit and purpose. Borrowing words from the saints of old, making them our own, reminds us that we are part of something bigger than ourselves.