City Community Church, Exeter - Worship

Worship & Music at CCC

Here at CCC, worship plays a massive part of who we are and how we express ourselves on Sundays. We fully recognise that worship is an attitude of heart, a response back to God expressing our passion for what he has done in our lives. We understand that God made us to worship him - and we love to express our worship through music.

Each Sunday, we have a good solid time of musical worship and have 5 worship leaders and a number of musicians who serve and reflect their love for God through musical worship in bands. Each week comes with a different flavour, but there is usually around 30 mins of music worship - with times of prophecy, words, Bible verses from within the church family during this time. We also have occasional evening events ranging from contemporary to prophetic worship.

We encourage a wide range of musicians of different abilities and flavas, looking first at a servant heart for God as well as musical gifting. Our worship styles range from more spontaneous worship, acoustic bands through to full bands. Importantly for us, our young people are actively supported and empowered into musical worship and there is a young people's band, young worship leaders, musicians and an emerging older children's band. People of all ages are encouraged to be part, if your gifting and heart is for musical worship on Sundays. If you have a musical ability and want to serve in this way, please ask for Steve on a Sunday morning for a chat about your music gifting and heart for God's worship. If you're gifted technically, please talk to Steve or Andy. We strongly believe those involved in audio and video are part of the worship team. As a team, we aim to be holy, walk closely with God and be pure before him, wanting the Holy Spirit to lead us at all times.

Here are some thoughts about Levitical worship in the Old Testament and what we can learn.

A word from one of our lead worshippers:

I've been reading a book recently about how the whole existence of mankind can be looked through the lens of worship. It begins with creation, God choosing to create. Those first humans created by God knew their place in sight of Him, and they worshipped. We were made to worship. They were in perfect relationship with God, because they perfectly worshipped. Then the fall of man...Adam and Eve decide to worship another 'god': themselves. They wanted to be better than Creator God. The book continues through, until we get to Jesus, the perfect sacrifice. Sacrifice? That's a 'worship' word... Jesus was the perfect sacrifice; his perfect act of worship to God the Father meant that all the wrong worship of other things had been dealt with...

So, how strong is true worship? The answer lies on the cross. That was true, pure worship, from a heart willing to serve the Father whatever the cost... His worship paid for all the times we have wrongly worshipped other things...time, money, sex, the worship band, the songwriter, the other worshipper.... That's how powerful worship can be - worship IS life and death.

We are all worshippers, every person on the earth worships... but it's what we choose to worship that makes a difference. Here at CCC, we're striving to put God first in all we do, choosing to worship the Lord, the Creator, and the One worthy of all the praise we can give. And as a musical worship team, we're looking to facilitate and encourage worship throughout the congregation. That's why, we believe, this area of our church is so important. We were made to worship, and we, as musicians, singers and technical operators, have been given the responsibility to lead the church in what we were all created to do - worship God!