WORSHIP AT
SEYMOUR CHURCH

Inspired and invited by the Holy Spirit, worship at Seymour Church includes five generations coming together every Sunday to worship through a balance blend of liturgical elements and worship practices from both past and present!

Why corporate worship?

We worship together to:
Respond in grateful obedience to God’s call.
Be instructed by God’s Word.
Be in communion with God and each other.
Celebrate God’s redemptive work in Christ.
Raise awareness and appreciation for God’s work in our lives.
Produce in us a profound awareness of the glory, majesty, and mystery of God.
Be encouraged, equipped, and inspired by the Holy Spirit to be agents of restoration in our world.

As God’s covenant Children, the community of believers at Seymour Church is committed to gathering weekly for corporate worship. As we do so, we seek to honor God in a manner of worship that is genuine and faithful to the Trinitarian Biblical witness. We also embrace the challenge and opportunity to engage in corporate worship that is true to Christ’s church of all times and all places, is consistent with our reformed heritage, and is meaningful and effective in our particular community.

What are the essential elements?

We maintain a balance in weekly worship services by remaining committed to:
Enter into God’s presence in adoration and praise.
Reaffirm our identity as children of God through forgiveness of sins.
Faithfully celebrate God’s grace to us through the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
Listen to God’s Holy Word in order to mature in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Respond in thanksgiving to God’s acts of mercy.
Be commissioned for service in God’s world.

As we worship a never-changing God while witnessing to an ever-changing world, the community of believers at Seymour Church recognizes both our obligation to establish continuity with the historic and universal church, and our obligation to embody the gospel to contemporary culture. Through the Spirit’s leading, we seek to utilize a rich variety of worship practices from both past and present, as well as to design and discover new expressions of worship.

What are the essential elements?

Corporate worship at Seymour Church strives to be:
Spirit-inspired
Participatory
Accessible
Reverent
Inclusive of every age, gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status
Always changing, while remaining faithful to our historical reformed tradition.
A balanced style of liturgy and music.

We look forward to the day when Christ returns and makes all our worship perfect. Meanwhile, we seek to be led by the Holy Spirit to worship in ways that are honoring to God, to one another, and help us mature in Christ. One way we do this is to maintain a balanced blend of liturgical elements and music. While preserving traditional worship practices, we remain open to new and expanded styles of music and liturgy.

Come let us bow down in worship,
Let us kneel before the LORD our maker;
For he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
The flock under his care.

Psalm 95:6-7