Our Worship Service

The main reason we gather corporately is to worship God. Worship includes all of the activities and experiences that we share during the service. So our understanding is that we come with a goal and desire to meet with Him -- to commune with Him. Although there is some basic pre-planning involved, each meeting is unique and different because we genuine allow Holy Spirit to lead the meeting according to what He desire to do in and through us at that time. We have learned to wait until His Presence is revealed and His anointing comes. Often we start a service by quietly coming into His presence and seeking to hear His heart for His people that day. Our worship and all of its elements are spontaneous. Someone may be led by the Holy Spirit to share a spiritual song or to sing a psalm. A musician may begin to play chords and melodies with a powerful anointing. Someone may share a short word which is knit together with the previous song or psalm. Greg or another anointed teacher may have a word for the congregation, or there may be a specific word for the children, teens, women, men, etc. Each element is anointed and complements the previous element, resulting in a theme or message that is woven in the Spirit. And all is done decently and in proper order.

There can be multiple participants as the Lord anoints people to bring forth spontaneous songs, revelations, teachings, prophecies, or other manifestations of His Presence. All ages are involved because we believe that corporate worship should not exclude anyone. This is the primary reason we do not have a "children's church" which might otherwise separate children from the congregation and prevent their participation. God is using this to restore families and family worship, and to destroy the barriers of separation between gender and age.

This is a partial list of what may occur during a service:

• Worship and praise
• Sharing of visions and/or revelations
• Praying with and for one another
• Teaching, exhorting and encouraging one another
• Ministering to one another in spiritual gifts
• Times of quiet, rest and restoration of our soul and spirit
• Joyous outbursts and powerful, anointed music
• Fellowship with one another

All of these occurrences are natural expressions of the Holy Spirit to the Body.
 

Why We Meet
 

We have three distinct types of meetings at the Fellowship of Life Church. Each meeting is geared for a different purpose. Each purpose accomplishes a different result. Each relates to, and builds upon, the other to fulfill God’s purposes here.  All are necessary for both individual maturity and corporate spiritual growth. 

Our meetings may not be like the average Sunday and midweek meetings of other churches. We do things as the Holy Spirit leads us as to the particular season we are in. When the reason for them is fulfilled, then the meeting may cease or change. 
 

Sunday Corporate Celebration 

This meeting is for the whole body. It focuses on celebrating Christ in us and us in Christ. It includes:

• Worship and praise
• Prophesy
• Teaching for equipping and building up the whole body
• Body ministry, with all members involved in ministering to one another
• Meeting, and connecting with, new members and guests
• Sharing "one another" things like praying with each other, giving to one another, loving one another, and encouraging one another
• Partaking of communion together
• Enjoying the dynamics of corporate anointing and spiritual energy

This meeting can flow in any direction and emphasis may be on one or a few areas for the whole meeting depending on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Children are encouraged to remain with parents.  Classes are optional for the younger children depending on parent’s preference for them.

Wednesday Night Revival Prayer
 

This meeting is centered on prayer for revival.  Revival for our church.  Revival for us individually.  Revival for the corporate Body of Christ.  And revival for our cities, state and nation.  The machine driving revival is prayer.  A revival is about the increase of Christ in us and through us, and decrease of carnality and sin.

Most of the church has only read of revivals of the past. None have experienced what happened in Wales at the turn of the 20^th century. The whole world was impacted by it through the presence of the Holy Spirit who literally changed the atmosphere of cities, regions and nations. The affairs of men changed and social and political changes were dramatic. Revivals are the cure of all ills in the world. They do in short time what methods and programs could never accomplish over sustained effort. So we focus our Wednesday night prayer on revival.  It stimulates our hearts to seek what the Lord himself wants us to seek.

House Church Meetings
 

These meetings are the relational backbone of the church. If the church/body of Christ is held together and joined by ligaments and bands, then this is the most essential meeting for fulfilling the body/life function of real church. It is as indispensable as the corporate meeting. In these meetings the real faith of the believer is expressed with one another in accountable, responsible relationships where needs are met and gifts flow towards one another. Every activity of church life can be conducted here. This is where the “one another” type activities occur:

• Share meals
• Partake of communion
• Pray for one another, for our towns/cities, our state, and our nation
• Help carry one another's burdens with compassion and care
• Spur one another on to love and good deeds
• Serve one another
• Build up and encourage one another
• Instruct one another as led by the Holy Spirit (including discipling new believers, baptizing them, helping them receive the Holy Spirit, and getting them healed and delivered)
• Develop ones gifts in a loving setting of encouragement, compassion and love
• Invite neighbors and friends
• Make plans to do things together
• Evangelize the region together
• Pray, praise and worship together
• Prophesy to one another as led by the Holy Spirit
• Review and reinforce current corporate teachings
• Become accountable and responsible for, and to, one another as faithful stewards of our lives, gifts and possessions