SUNDAYS

CORPORATE PRAYER

This is a time where we gather together for prayer as a church family.​ Each week a different leader will guide the time using Scripture and prompts from our values.

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GATHERED WORSHIP

On Sunday mornings we meet at 10:45am for gathered worship. Each service lasts about an hour and fifteen minutes. We worship God by reading and hearing from His Word, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, reciting confessions of faith, giving tithes and offerings, and praying together. Preaching is central to our gatherings, and preaching at FBCC is expositional. This means that the sermon is derived from a particular passage of Scripture; the focus and message of the passage is the focus and message of the sermon. After the sermon, we sing a song of response and conclude our service. 

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ORDINANCES

​Christ gave his church two ordinances to practice together: baptism, which marks the beginning of one's public testimony in following Christ, and the Lord's Supper, which marks continued dependence on the sacrifice Christ made to forgive us of our sins. When someone wants to join the church by repenting of sin and professing Christ publicly, we examine their heart and life for the fruit of the Spirit. After the congregation votes to accept that person as a member, we publicly immerse him/her in water as a symbol of death and resurrection. We also partake of the Lord's Supper once a month; in so doing we celebrate our redemption by confessing our sins, remembering our Lord’s death, and rejoicing in His all-sufficient sacrifice. All who have been baptized as believers and live in repentance before Christ may partake with us.

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MUSIC

Our primary criteria for songs on Sunday morning are biblical fidelity, theological richness, singability, and corporate edification. We aim for the music at FBCC to be a blend of old and new, traditional and contemporary, historic and modern.  If you come to worship with us, you may very well hear a song that you have never heard before, whether it is a sixteenth century hymn or twenty-first century chorus. This variety allows us to enjoy other genres of music we had not previously encountered, and it enables us to sing with the larger voice of the church that spans over 2,000 years. Our singing is congregational, which encourages the full and active participation of all present. We have no desire to wow you with musical prowess; we simply want to provide a platform for the congregation to worship the Lord together through song.