Principle One: Worship Celebrates Christ

In proclaiming God's saving work through Jesus Christ in song, story, prayer, and thanksgiving, the church glorifies God and extols him for his acts of redemption. Thus it accomplishes Peter's declaration that God's people "may declare the praises of him who called [them] out of darkness into his wonderful light" (1 Pet. 2:9). Worship Is Based on the History of Salvation Christian liturgy is patterned on the history of salvation. There is the original initiative of God, who throughout the ages offers man his love. The history is carried forward by the redeeming events of Christ, the Son of God, who on the cross gives himself totally to his Father and for the salvation of mankind. He ascends to the Father and sends upon his Church the Holy Spirit, so that his ekklsia may continue his redeeming work in time and space and by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Church looks toward the consummation of all things when Christ delivers the kingdom to his Father so that he may be all in all (1…