About worship at Grace…

Grace Lutheran Church is a liturgical church.  However, this does not mean that Grace is old-fashioned and archaic as many understand “liturgical” to be.  To say that a church is liturgical is to say that it follows God’s active work to bring His people into His presence to feed them with His Word and Sacraments and renew them through the forgiveness of sin through Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Grace Lutheran Church is also a contemporary church.  However, this does not mean that Grace seeks to be vibrant and exciting for the sake of entertainment as many understand “contemporary” to be.  To say that a Church is contemporary (a word that literally means, “for the current time”) is to say that the Word of God is taught in its purity to address the issues of today’s world and culture and provide God’s people with the necessary instruction to remain faithful to God.

This is the goal of the worship services (or, more properly termed, the Divine Liturgy) here at Grace – to stay focused on what God is actively doing in our midst so that we might rightly apply His Word and grace to live faithfully in this world.  We use the liturgically ordered services and hymns provided in the Lutheran Service Book.  But, we also use some thematically composed confessions and litanies as well as some contemporary music selections.  If you are considering visiting Grace, we pray that you will be enlightened by the gifts of the Holy Spirit through the Word of the Gospel and administration of the Sacraments.