SUNDAYS AT REZ

About our service

 

WHEN

Sundays at 10am

WHERE

Resurrection Anglican Church

231 Arnold Mill Rd, Woodstock, GA 30188

WHAT TO EXPECT

The gospel is at the heart of worship at Resurrection. A typical Sunday service will include four readings from the Bible and is structured to lead you through the gospel story to experience afresh the good news of God’s forgiveness in Christ. We first hear the gospel from the pulpit, and then we share in the gospel at the Lord’s Table. As Martin Luther once said, the sermon speaks the gospel to everyone, but Communion shows the gospel to you.

People are busy. And people are lonely. As a sacramental church, we believe busy and lonely people are longing for a purpose which goes beyond their own particular generation and culture. At Resurrection, the ancient practices of the universal church enable us to slow down, to connect with Christians throughout the centuries and across the world, and to re-live the story of Jesus and the Church. Each week, we sing God-centered hymns, we recite rich prayers together, and we joyfully celebrate Communion.

We aim for our Sunday mornings together to be both reverent and personal at the same time. We don’t view written prayers and weekly Communion as being in conflict with heartfelt worship, with raising hands during praise, or with private prayer. The Scriptures, the Sacraments, and the Songs all unite to make us experience the love of Jesus more and more deeply and to root us in the gospel. Additionally, members have cited the welcoming culture of our church as the reason why they have chosen to be members at Resurrection. They felt seen by people who care and felt like there are authentic, genuine Christians here.

 

SAMPLE ORDER OF SERVICE

CHILDREN AT REZ

Families are central at Resurrection.

We believe parents are the primary disciple-makers of their children, not the church, and we encourage children to worship with their families on Sunday mornings.

The Anglican Church is a unique environment where everyone can experience Christ through all five senses. This allows children and adults alike to experience the presence of God across all learning styles.

We love and value that our children participate in worship and communion, and we're not overwhelmed by their wiggles, noises, and messiness. Jesus said "Let the children come.”

FAQs ABOUT WORSHIP AT REZ

  • During our services at Resurrection, we encourage children to stay with their families in the service. We believe there is nothing more beneficial for a child's faith than to observe her parents week after week cherish Jesus in wholehearted worship. Just like when families sit together over meals at the table, when children worship alongside their parents, they grow up to spiritual maturity and learn the "table mannners" of corporate worship.

  • Liturgy means "work of the people." Every church has a liturgy, or a way of structuring its corporate worship, even if the word liturgy is not used.

  • Creeds are historic, authoritative summaries of the Bible's teaching, passed down to Christians today from a time when the universal church was undivided. A soldier takes an oath of allegiance when he enlists in the military. Creeds operated in a similar way in the early church. When a new Christian was baptized, she would say one of the creeds to vow obedience to Jesus as her Lord to the death. We similarly say one of these creeds, the Nicene, every Sunday as a way of continually pledging our faith to Christ.

  • Some people feel that unless prayers are spontaneous and "from the heart" they are less authentic and impersonal. At Resurrection, we use written prayers alongisde extemporaneous prayers, because we think that written prayers can be authentic, personal tools for helping us grow in prayer. Like a pianist frequently practicing a piece of classical music, the church has historically found written prayers to become more personal with repetition. Written prayers are beautiful expressions of faith that sometimes put into better words the feelings we don't always have the words to express.

  • No, it does not. The word "catholic" simply means "according to the whole," or the universal church. It is used in Acts 15:22, to describe a decision made by the first gathering of the universal church at the Jerusalem Council. We say the word "catholic" in the Creed to signify our unity with Christians thoughout the world, across denominations, and through time.

  • Anyone who is a baptized, born again follower of Jesus is welcome to share the Lord's Table with us. Baptism has been the non-optional, key starting point of the Christian life from the beginning of church history (Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 2:38-39). We eagerly share Communion with brothers and sisters in Christ who have been baptized in other churches: Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic, non-denominational, etc. We do warn people who have either not been baptized or who are living in conscious sin to not take the bread and wine out of love for them, so that they will repent of any sin that is harming them and so that they won't "eat or drink judgment on themselves" (1 Cor. 11:29).