An Introduction to Our Sunday Morning Worship:

We welcome you to join us for any worship service of the Northside Church of Christ. If you have not worshiped with our congregation on Sunday morning (11.00 am) before, here is some information to familiarize you with our service.

Our style of worship is simple, patterned after the examples and teachings of the earliest Christians in the New Testament. Feel free to sit anywhere, there are no reserved seats. We try to be a family, as God has taught us to be. Because of that we try to get to know everyone. This is a time of friendship with God and with each other.

The Singing:
You'll notice that our worship in song is without instrumental accompaniment. We believe that a cappella congregational singing both enhances our personal involvement in the worship, and conforms to the New Testament example (a cappella literally means "in the manner of the church," or "as in the chapel").

The Lord's Supper (Communion):
We celebrate the Lord's Supper every Sunday. Jesus established the practice of sharing the bread and the cup so Christians might remember weekly the sacrifice of his body and blood to make a new covenant with God possible for us. We leave to each person the decision to participate in the Supper.

The Offering:
After the Lord's Supper we give the members of the church an opportunity to make a financial sacrifice to the Lord to go to supporting the work of this church

Praying:
There will be several prayers during the service. And there may be prayers for specific needs and requests.

Preaching:
You will notice that the preacher doesn't have a title. He won't be referred to as Pastor or Reverend. He will probably be referred to as brother. Or Mister. Or, possibly, just called by his first name.
He won't be wearing any ecclesiastical vestments, which set him apart. The reason for this is our belief in the priesthood of all believers and that all believers are equal in God's sight.
The sermon will likely be from 20 to 30 minutes. We think you will find it refreshingly Bible-centered.