We have a high view of God’s Word and believe specific care should be given to ensure faithful and effective preaching. First, our belief is that God-centered worship requires faithful, Christ-centered preaching. This would include specific care for scripture, sound doctrine, and a Reformed confessional perspective. We expect that faithful preaching will be encouraging, challenging, appropriately convicting, and leaves us with a specific desire of how we will seek to serve God and others differently. It should build up the church while also naturally conveying the gospel to those who are not believers but whose hearts are being opened. Second, we also believe faithful preaching reveals careful preparation and appropriately paced guidance of the congregation through the passage’s context, theological realities & practical implications. God’s Spirit enables us to work through scripture as the sermon structure is evident and the Bible is necessary. Third, we believe effective preaching should prompt our hearts with examples that draw us into reflection about our relationship with God and others. Finally, we also believe effective preaching is interesting. Our pastors consider how a passage and context is relevant to the breadth of our congregational members.