WHAT TO EXPECT AT CORNERSTONE UPC ... 

If you have never had the opportunity to be in a Spirit-filled service before, you will discover that Biblical expressions of worship are still practiced today. We welcome you to join in with us as we worship God together in spirit and in truth.

WE PRAY TOGETHER ALOUD IN JESUS NAME ...

Mark 16:17-18 - "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."


Acts 4:24 - "They lifted up their voice to God with one accord."

WE LIFT OUR HANDS IN PRAISE ... 

 - Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

 - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

 - Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

 - Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

WE SING WITH JOY & EXPRESSION ...

Psalm 95:1-2 - "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms."

 

Colossians 3:16 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

 

Zephaniah 3:17 - The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

we play musical instruments ... 

2 Samuel 6:5 - And all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments.


Psalm 33:2 - Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.


** The New Testament neither forbids nor commands the use of musical instruments in church. A church has freedom to use musical instruments in worship, and a church has freedom not to. Whatever a church decides to do concerning the use of musical instruments, other churches should accept it as that church’s way of praising the Lord. With or without musical instruments, we should “do it all for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). **

we clap our hands & SHOUT unto god ... 

Psalm 47:1 - O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph! 


Isaiah 55:12 - “For you will go out with joy. And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

WE DANCE BEFORE THE LORD ... (unchoreographed) 

Ecclesiastes 3:4 - A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.


Psalm 30:11 - You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.


Psalm 149:3 - Let them praise His name with dancing; let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre.

we testify publically ... 

Psalm 22:22 - I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.


Mark 5:19 - Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.


1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

We anoint with oil for divine healing ... 

Mark 6:13 - And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.


James 5:14 - Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.


Acts 19:11-12 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought  unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.