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When the Church gathers, it is not to consume a religious product. We are not called to the high art of sacred theater, where we sit by as spectators while worship is served up to us, hot and tasty. When God's community gathers, we are entering an experience, we are coming - together - to speak to and hear from and bow before our God. These experiences are important to us because we care deeply about the Gospel, the message that God has come to us in Jesus and invites all of us into the story. If you are in the place of just wanting to explore the possibilities of faith, this experience is for you too. Feel it. Taste it. Wonder if the stories told and the faith embraced might be true. What follows is intended to give instruction and context to the Sunday rhythms of New Faith Community, the ways we all - regardless of where we are on the spiritual path - are able to encounter Jesus and his story. Dive in.

Teaching

The Scripture is God's gift to guide us into encountering the Living Christ. It offers us instruction and mercy. It provides us with wisdom and correction. However, the Bible is not a textbook or manual. It is a place where the God-breathed words are breathed afresh into our soul (I Timothy 3:16). At NFC, we place a high priority on sitting under the teaching of God. We wrestle with what God says. We seek to understand the implications of what God says. We wonder if we are correctly hearing what God says. Yet, in all this, we are acting in faith ... that God has said. God has spoken. Our Sunday teaching hopes to faithfully engage and journey into the things God has spoken. We desire to let Scripture speak for itself, attempting to minimize the way we impose our presuppositions or worldview or politics or felt-needs onto God. We desire to let him speak. And we pray we will have the courage to obey.

Music

Music is common in most every tradition of public worship. Music speaks the language of our soul. The Hebrew culture in which Jesus lived was a culture of poets and musicians. Perhaps the best known book of the Bible, Psalms, is a collection of prayer books that God's people have used over the centuries to worship our God. The prayers were often spoken, but the prayers were also sung. The music at NFC attempts to provide our heart a voice. Through music, we sing of God's character, we sing of our need, we repent, we ask God to move on our behalf and we simply celebrate that God is ... and that we are his people.

Prayer

Prayer is conversation, and conversing with God is central to the life of following Jesus. St. Benedict called prayer "the work of God," reflecting the reality that God is the one first at work in prayer - we are merely joining the conversation, responding to God's invitation to engage in God-work. Prayer is often portrayed in Scripture as a communal act. The Psalms were the prayer book of the early church where, together, they would sing and speak their hopes and their repentance and their passions ... to God. We pray together in many ways at NFC. Sometimes there is a prayer space offered. Sometimes we provide moments of silence for personal prayer. We believe God is present and God is listening. So, we pray.

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