A Blended Worship

In the Communion of the Evangelical Episcopal Churches we have a new approach to worship that it is base in a old way of doing things. We combine the preaching of the Word of God, with the power of the Holy Spirit and the presence of God in the sacraments. We worship in the style and formula established by the Apostles and Early Church Fathers, and we recognize two Sacraments established by Christ and instituted by the early church.

Faith in Christ

Grace is a free gift from Christ who is given to us through Jesus Christ. This grace who is receive by faith, we believe to be the beginning for a new life and new oppotunities. This is why we think this is the greatest gift that God could have done for us in His Son Jesus Christ. Because of our desire to do things our own way, men and women have walk away from God and they have not receive the intimate relationship with God that God desires with them. This change when Jesus Christ gave His life upon a cross to make possible for us to re-establish our relationship with God in Christ. This is possible when we believe it  and act upon this faith. Faith is our response to God's action and the sovereign working of the Holy Spirit.

Liturgical Service

We are God's people, and we gather together to worship and praise God as a Community of God's people. Our worship is the main focus in our gathering as the Church. Thus, our worship needs to be in spirit and in truth. This is a real need today as it was when the Apostles met with the new believers and employed forms they knew from the synagogue to praise the risen Christ. This is also our purpose when we gether  together around the Lord's Table. We want to praise and worship the Risen Christ and proclaim what He has done for us.

The Book of Common Prayer receive its name from this purpose, to gather together ( Common) and pray as a one body ( Prayer). But prayer has many diferent forms, and we rejoice in this diversity of forms and ways to come togehter in worship and praise.

When you participate in our worship, you will see that we use all of our body, mind and heart. We raise our hands before the Lord in wonder, we make the sign of the Cross to remain us that we are crucified with Him, we exalt Christ as we bow before Him. Also, we reflect and meditatein God's Word as we proclaim and taught the lection for the week. One of the aspect that many people seems to ignore, it is the fact that the BCP is mainly texts from the Scriptures who are used to worship God. Paul commends the Corinthians for maintaining traditions as he delivered them (1 Cor 11:2). Peter quotes a baptismal instruction (1 Pt 3:18). Hymns (Phil 2:6), confessions (1 Tim. 3:16), catechisms (1 Cor 15:3-5, Rom 1:2-4), and Trinitarian formulae (2 Cor 13:14, Jude 20-21) pervade the Epistles. The earliest Christians "continued steadfastly in the Apostles' teaching and worship, and in the breaking of bread" (cf. 1 Cor 11:23), and in the prayers (Acts 2:42). In fact, when His disciples inquired, the Lord Himself instructed them in a corporate prayer: "Our Father ... give us this day ... our daily bread". Our heart also rejoice as we share the Lord's table and we gather in His presence to receive the strength for our daily journey. God impart His grace through the Holy Spirit as we eat and drink the bread and the wine.

Today, there are many churches and congregations where believers meet together in a place, but once they are gather together everyone seems to do what it is more pleasing to them. It is true that we must leave room for the Holy Spirit to move among the congregation. This is the reason why Blended worship provide a place for the spontaneous petitions and prayers of individuals in the congregation as well as a place where God can speak to the congregation.

On the other hand, we are also called to worship and pray as one body. This is the main reason why the CEEC use written prayers and hymns so that we too might sing and pray as a body. Liturgical prayers do not depend on the performance and personality of the pastor or how we feel on Sunday morning. Liturgical worship try to bring all the assembly together to give all the glory, honour and praise to God.

The Lord's Supper

The Lord's Supper bring to fulfilment the entire Sunday Service, because we have been preparing through the entire service to receive, remember and participate in the main event in history, Christ's death in the Cross for us. Jesus Christ called us to gatehr as one and celebrate the events which take place in the night before his sacrifice. "Take this bread and eat it; take this wine and drink it. These are my body and blood, broken and poured out for you and for many in covenant. Do this often, remembering me till I come" (Mt 26, Mk 14, Lk 22, Jn 6, 1 Cor 11), His word remains us the significance of those events, and what Christ did for us; how "God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrifical death while we were of no use whatever to Him (Rom 5, 8, The Message)." 

A place to call Home

Our desire is to see you to come and join us to be part of God's family. We want to invite you to visit us anytime, and we pray that God will become real as you worship Him in spirit and in truth. Also, we hope you will  find the CEEC to be a aplce to rest, be reflesh and strength in your spiritual journey. If you have been searching for a church, and you think this could be a place to call Home. Please, let us know... Contact us.