One thing we take seriously at Grace Fellowship Church is liturgy. Liturgy refers simply to the structure or order of a worship service. In a Reformed Baptist church like ours, a liturgy will typically begin with something like a call to worship and end with a benediction. Between those bookends you’ll ordinarily find singing, prayers, confessions of sin, assurances of pardon, Scripture readings and, of course, a sermon. There can also be occasional or semi-regular elements such as baptisms, celebrating the Lord’s Supper, or reciting a creed or confession.
Each week, one of our elders builds a liturgy that is structured around a particular theme.1 That theme is often, though not always, related to the sermon. The songs, prayers, confessions, and other elements are then brought into harmony with it. Though we sometimes use elements drawn from traditional liturgies, we more often create them ourselves.
We would like to make our liturgies available to you in two forms: complete services and collections of each of the elements. We do this so you can use or adapt them for your own purposes. To clarify: This article is your permission to take them and either use them verbatim or modified. You do not need further permission and do not need to provide attribution.
At this point, I have added about a year’s worth of liturgies to the collection. I will be adding a new one most weeks and will also be adding more from the archives. I hope you enjoy them and I hope you find them useful!
Visit the Liturgies page.
- At this point, that is almost always our Senior Pastor, Paul Martin. ↩︎
