Worship

We, at Darwin Community Church believe that worship involves speaking, listening and doing.

Our worship is a response to what God has revealed Himself to be, not only who He is; but also in what He has done and is doing and will do in the future.

Worship includes all our responses to God - including our mind, our belief in God's worthiness, our emotions, such as love and trust, and our actions and our words. Our heart expresses itself in words and songs; our mind is active when we want to learn what God wants us to do, and our bodies and strength are involved when we obey and when we serve.

Worship involves our entire relationship with God, all our heart, mind, soul and strength - it involves all the ways in which we can respond to God, all the ways we can praise him by what we say and do, all the ways we can demonstrate that God is worthy of all praise and honour and allegiance.

Warren Wiersbee, in his book, Real Worship, comments, “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of the mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose; and all of this gathered up in adoration. The most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self centredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.”

We at Darwin Community Church, endeavour to provide an environment where people can freely come into the presence of God and express themselves in such a way so as to glorify God and build up other believers to do the same through their example.