Providence Reformed Baptist Church takes a serious approach to worship.  The God we worship is a God of majesty, glory and holiness. And the God of the Bible is One before Whom the angels of heaven constantly cry, "Holy, Holy, Holy" they worship Him day and night; He is great and greatly to be praised.

We believe that when we come together to worship this great and glorious God of the Bible we ought to do so with reverence and with godly fear.  We believe that there ought to be a sense of awe in our hearts when we gather to worship this God! In true worship there is joy in God; a joy not arising from some natural "good feeling" but a joy arising out of the knowledge of the Lord, and a joy tempered and controlled by reverence.

We also believe that our music in the church ought to be governed by the great central fact of the One whom we worship.  So much of the music invading the churches today seems little more than carnal imitation of the world or is mindlessly emotional and repetitious.  There is very little difference between that which is presented on the church platform and that which is presented on the television or the worldly floor show--except of course, that "religious" words are uttered rather than "secular" ones.  But the spirit is of the world; the appeal is to the flesh. This we abhor and reject as having no place in the worship of God.  That which is sacred ought not to be prostituted and used as entertainment.  If men want to be entertained let them be honest enough to go to some secular hall of amusement and be entertained; let them not pretend to be worshiping or in a service when entertainment is the order of the day. When we gather to worship, we want to keep the world out; we want to appeal not to the flesh but to the spirit; we want not the sophistication of the world but the simplicity of Christ. Oh that when we worship we might feel the awe of God in our souls; Oh that we might see something of the glory seen by Isaiah and by the servants of God of old!

General Methodology

  1. Simplicity

  2. Regularity

  3. Intelligibility

  4. Proportionality

  5. Verticality

Scope

  1. Order without suffocation

  2. Freedom without chaos

  3. Edification without entertainment

  4. Reverence without rote