Philadelphia United Methodist Church
 1691 Hwy 160 West, Fort Mill, SC  29708

Phone: 803.548.0102

Sunday Schedule

8:30 a.m.
  Early Worship
9:45 a.m.
  Contemporary
   Worship
  Sunday School
11:00 a.m.
  Traditional Worship
5:00 p.m.
  Youth Programs
   KCC
6:00 p.m.
  Contemporary Music Rehearsal

Contemporary-Alternative Worship Service

Sunday mornings at 9:45 in the sanctuary

“Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our maker.” 

 –Psalm 95:6

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What is a contemporary-alternative worship service?

Our contemporary-alternative worship service differs from traditional worship in many ways. First, this service incorporates a contemporary style of music, including upbeat Christian pop music, worshipful emotional ballads, and thought-provoking “mood-music” throughout the service.

Along with the new music style, the worship service provides a new and ever-changing order of worship, with prayers, readings, and other worship elements being led by the members of the music team. Meaningful biblical messages, dramatic readings, dances, poetry, and other elements of the worship arts are all incorporated into this service as a way to engage our minds, bodies, and emotions in the worship and praise of God.

What you can expect:

  1. A creative and casual worship atmosphere with the freedom to be you. You cannot exist in this world without seeing evidence of the inescapable truth of God’s artistic nature. The contemporary-alternative worship service is a way to celebrate God’s majesty with both imagination and reverence - allowing everyone to encounter God in many different ways.
  2. A variety of thought-provoking, exciting, inspiring, and scripturally based music that goes way beyond the older style of overused, repetitive praise choruses.   
  3. A Christ-centered worship experience that is not about us (the worshipers) or God’s service to us, but is purely our offering of service and worship to God – offering our lives, offering our prayers, offering our praise, offering our confessions, offering our finances, offering our service to others in the church body.
  4. Something new and different each and every week. Jesus taught that God does not look for specific acts or rituals of worship. The heart behind worship is what matters most to God.

“Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped.”

–Jack Hayford

 

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