Sunday Liturgy
On the Lord's Day the church gathers together to worship Christ in a particular way. Meant to model every covenantal moment in redemptive history, Covenant Renewal Liturgy is a framework that enables our congregation to grow greatly in the means of grace as we intentionally lean into each particular step that God does for his people.
Calling
Confession
Consecration
Communion
Commissioning
Call to Worship
God comes near and calls His people out of the world to gather in His presence. He graciously takes hold of us and brings us near to himself.
Bible Example:God taking dirt, Adam, Noah, Abram, Israel
Confession & Absolution
God reminds us what he has done for us in Christ and declares his interest in restoring us again to his favor in Christ. We confess our sins and God absolves us of guilt. God graciously reminds us that we bear the name Christian and are members of his family in Christ. He tears us from our old sinful ways and renews his love for us in Christ.
Bible Example: God separates Dirt, Adam, Noah (from wicked people), Abram (from Babylon), Israel (from other nations)
Consecration: Scripture Reading & Sermon
God speaks to us through his Word. His people respond by giving themselves and their gifts as a fitting offering.
Bible Example: God speaks and promises, and the people are to act in light of God’s decree
Communion: The Lord’s Supper
God invites us to commune with him at his covenant meal, and we respond by memorializing his covenant and enjoying his faithful provisions at the family feast.
Bible Example: God gives covenant signs/seals (garden trees, animals & rainbow, circumcision, law and temple system)
Commissioning: The Benediction
God blesses us and charges us to extend his kingdom into the future and into the world, making disciples of all nations. We are dismissed from God’s special presence, renewed and equipped for this task.
Bible Example: God sends out his people (Be fruitful & multiply, Abraham and his heirs, Deuteronomy commissioning)
Content taken from The Lord’s Service by Jeffery Meyers
What to Expect
Service Time: 1.5hrs
As a congregation we will rise, sit, sing, read responsively, and truly participate together
Music is congregational: Psalms and hymns
Ordinaries (Sung every week)
O Worship the King (Based on Ps 145)
Come Bless the Father (Ps 134) & Sursum Corda
Psalm 100 & Doxology
Apostle’s Creed
Song of Simeon & Gloria Patri
2 Additional Songs
One sung the whole-month long
One chosen for that specific Sunday
All of these you can practice for free via the Sing Your Part App
Set the in-app Church to Providence Reformed Church (Roseville CA)
Preaching is exegetical, usually moving through a whole book of the Bible
The Lord’s Supper is shared every week for all who are baptized and not under church discipline
Afterwards, we share a meal together (aside from the final Sunday of the month), and visitors are most definitely welcome!