King of Kings Anglican Church
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What are our worship services like?

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 contemporary-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 understanding of English, we use the simple yet fairly literal New Living Translation (2004) for our Scripture readings and teaching.

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Worshipful, contemporary music.   At King of Kings we praise and adore the Lord with music that is contemporary yet worshipful. Our music is chosen with the sole purpose of helping us submit ourselves to God, heart and soul, to draw our attention from ourselves to the Lord.

True-to-life teaching. The sermons you’ll hear at King of Kings are down-to-earth, nitty gritty applications of God’s Truth to our lives. Sometimes the truth isn’t so easy to hear, but it’s vital and life-giving. It frees us to experience authentic relationship with God and with the other people in our lives.

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People who aren’t trying to impress each other. At Kings of Kings we aren’t nearly so concerned with what other people think, as with having life-changing encounters with God. No matter how you dress or talk, you’re accepted. There’s no need to try to be someone you’re not; we value authenticity, in our relationship with God and with one another.

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