The Worship Gathering:

Worship is very important to us at SHPC, but we don’t see it simply as a way to “draw new people in” to our church as much as way for each of us to “be drawn in” to an irresistible life of faith.  We hope that each and every week our longtime members as well as our guests will feel welcomed in an exciting way.  We grow stronger in our worship through meaningful music and the arts, engaging community, and relevant teaching.

a reflection...

Worship isn’t about us.

It’s about God.

Worship isn’t something we “do” on Sunday mornings...

it’s the way we live.

Worship isn’t a shout into the dark abyss...

it’s a living dialogue between us and our maker,

it’s a call and a response.

Worship is sacrificial.  It’s communal.  It’s personal.  It’s intimate.  It’s exciting.  It’s life-giving.

It’s beyond our wildest dreams and it takes us to places we didn’t really want to go to find out that that’s where we wanted to be...all along.

It is infinite.

It is humbling.

It is moving.

It’s our undoing. 

It’s where the details of our lives get lost in the wonder of it all.

It connects us to something bigger than ourselves.

It’s our beautiful, messy response when all we can do is look up in silence at the stars.