What is a "typical" worship service at your church

RE: Typical church service

In the Old Regular Baptists, we start singing approx 30 mins or so before the actual service starts. While we are singing, people are usually going around shaking each other's hands and hugging each other. The moderator/pastor then gets up and welcomes everyone and reads the prayer list. Then people will call off someone's name if they aren't on the list. After this, the moderator will call on someone to "introduce" the service. A lot of times it will be a young brother who is just starting out in the ministry. After he preaches a few mins, he will call for a song. While we are singing, we will go around and shake each other's hands again. After the song is finished, we are then "led" in prayer by someone. He is the only one who prays really loud enough to hear. The rest of us pray either under our breath, or in our head. Then someone will "follow the opening". He usually is the "meat and potatoes" preacher...the one who has preached for years. After he finishes, someone else will preach and close the service by announcing an "open door" to receive members by experience and baptism. The closing preacher usually doesn't preach very long. After the singing is finished, the visiting brothers announce their church meeting times. In the ORBs, we don't have church at our home churches every week. My home church meets on the first saturday and sunday in each month. This enables us to visit our brother's churches. It is a very old tradition that they decided to hang on to, I guess. But I do love it. I hope this helps!!

Willis

 

RE: Typical church service

As you can tell, we like to shake hands alot. They don't call us "hand shakin' " baptists for nothing!:laugh: My father-in-law is a pastor of a United Baptist church, and he calls his church by this nickname sometimes. LOL!!

 

Our worship of God is ordered like this:

1. Welcome from one of the pastors.
2. Announcements.
3. Hymn or Psalm or Spiritual Song is sung.
4. Prayer requests and praises.
5. Scripture reading.
6. Men expound the Scripture read, 2 or 3 at the most, women may give a testimony but not teach.
7. Congregation prays for prayer requests.
8. Hymn or Psalm or Spiritual Song.
9. Peaching the Word of God.
10. Benediction.

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RE: Typical ORB service

Tenor,

Most of our meetings last about 1.5-2 hours. Usually two of the preachers won't preach no longer than 15-20 mins each. I have to work every other weekend, so I can only go two sundays a month; but I do go other places as well, not just to my home church. As far as I know, pretty much all ORBs conduct their services this way. Most, not all, have dinner after church. Some churches will have a saturday evening service that isn't on their regular meeting. If their regular weekend is on the second weekend, they may have a saturday evening service on, say, a fourth saturday night. We do not have SS or bible study, but a lot of people will talk to one another on the phone and discuss bible this way. I hope this helps you.

Willis

 

We sing a couple songs
read from this day in baptist history
cover anouncements
sing a couple more songs
then preaching

simple and sweet

 

ps. its traditional/old fashioned stuff

 

Our offerings come after the instruction in the Scriptures, commonly called preaching. The principle of course is illustrative of the response of the believer to God and so our service is structure that way. It is centered around the person of Christ and the nature of the Gospel. God gives and believers respond.

 

Call to Worship (Choral or Congregational)
Welcome/Announcments
2 or 3 Songs
Scripture
Focused Prayer Time (For Our Church, Our Community, Missions Efforts)
2 or 3 Songs
Sometimes a "Message in Song" (Solo, Ensemble, or Choir)
Message
Invitation
Worship Through Tithes and Offerings
Dismiss

 

I am a member of a Reformed Baptist congregation. Currently our congregation is not associated with a Reformed Baptist fellowship. But that my change soon. We are considering associating with the Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America. http://65.71.233.194/arbca/

 

Prob because most of us be Babdists.... lol :laugh: :laugh:

 

Here is our rough schedule:

Announcements
Organ Prelude / Meditation Time
Choral Call to Worship
Invocation
Hymn
Scripture Readings
(Monthly Children's Sermon; occasional Vocal Solo)
Pastoral Prayer
Hymn
Offertory Prayer (by a deacon)
Offering/ Offertory
Presentation of Tithes & Offerings / Congregational singing of Doxology
Choral Anthem
Sermon
Invitation
Benediction
Choral Response
Organ Postlude

We have a traditional service with singing from hymnals and scripture readings and sermons based on lectionary. All of the elements of the service are planned by our ministers to amplify the scripture passages and prepare the congregation for the sermon. In the thirty years I have been a member of the church, we have changed the service order occasionally, so it is not a hard and fast schedule. Also, in all of the surveys we have taken over the years, our youth have never expressed a desire to have our service order changed to a more contemporary style.

Tim Reynolds