Gathered worship is an important part of living out our vision of mission and maturity at St Barnabas. Music is a key way in which we worship God together, passionately and honestly, teaching his word faithfully and with theological depth through the songs that we sing.
Sunday Services
The style of sung worship varies between our 3 Sunday services:
9am - on the 3rd Sunday of each month there is more traditional sung worship, led from the piano.
10.30am - each week the sung worship is led by a band and seeks to have an all age focus, providing a way for the
young through to the old to engage with God together.
7pm - this service is characterised by a more informal style of sung worship, with the band leaders seeking to take
the worshipper on a journey, starting with praise and adoration and moving into a time of response.
We understand sung worship at St Barnabas in the following terms:
- An offering to the Lord.
- An opportunity to encounter and respond to the Lord.
- A time for intimacy with the Lord.
- An occasion to be honest and vulnerable before the Lord.
- A chance to be empowered by the Lord.
- A corporate undertaking.
Want more information?
Andy Irons is our Sung Worship Coordinator, and is responsible for overseeing the sung worship that goes on here on Sundays, and leading the team of sung worship band leaders. If you’d like to find out more about our sung worship, or about how you could get involved in leading our worship please contact him.
Andy is also involved in a project run by Jubilate Hymns called RESOUND worship which aims to resource the church with free, new, singable, bible based songs. You can find out more by going to the website www.RESOUNDworship.org
Why do we call it ‘sung' worship?
Worship should be expressed through our whole lives (Romans 12:1-2). When we gather together to worship through songs, these will hopefully be special and invaluable occasions; yet they remain only part of our worship as God's people.
