Services at King of Kings follow the ancient pattern we see modeled in the earliest
centuries of the Church. We listen to readings of God’s Word, the Holy Scriptures. We sing in praise of God’s
glory and love. We pray and pour out our hearts to him. And then we sit down to Table with him and receive, in a mysterious
and wonderful way, the very life of Jesus, imparted to us through bread and wine.
While our flow of worship is ancient and liturgical, our music is mostly modern and heartfelt.
We may even clap or dance along from time to time. Sometimes someone in the group
may sense that God is saying something that needs to be shared with the rest of
us; if so, we’ll pause and let them speak. Sometimes other unusual things happen, and if
we sense that God is behind it, we try to be flexible and just go with the flow. In general, though, our worship could be
characterized as “orderly yet heartfelt.”
Our worship follows
the liturgy of An Australian Prayer Book (1978), a conservative modern-language adaptation of the 1662 Book
of Common Prayer used for centuries by the Church of England. Because
our multi-ethnic congregation includes people with a limited grasp of English,
we use the simple yet fairly literal New Living Translation (2004) for our Scripture
readings and teaching.
