Worship the Lord, You Are Safe

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At Restoration Fellowship we have committed ourselves to biblical principles of life and love which we trust will constantly be manifest in such as way as to insure those present here of the following:

Our freedom in worship will never surrender to fanaticism.

We are forthright and expressive but differentiate between the sound of praise and the noise of people.  We worship as a choir in chorus, not as soloists in competition.  We worship in spirit with liberty but in concert under leadership.  It's safe to praise aloud with us, for we will partner together to worship in the beauty of holiness, and we will preempt both prideful formalism and personal fanaticism.

Our openness to one another will never exploit anyone.

We foster communication and interaction, recognizing that true fellowship is impossible without the pursuit of transparent and authentic sharing.  What is shared in prayer is sacred with us, and what is shown from your heart is treasured.  We hold this trust, that all who minister the life of Jesus to one another always function in the love of Jesus.  That love is unconditional and nonmanipulative, and it always covers weakness and sin with strength and forgiveness.

Our welcome to spiritual gifts will never violate the Word.

We ask the Holy Spirit to be present here and to distribute gifts among us according to His will.  All the gifts are present in the Church, and every believer is urged to be free and responsible to minister gifts with sensitivity.  We are covetous of their manifestion but not gullible as to their demonstration.  Graciousness in ministry, submissiveness in spirit, and order in the operation of the gifts are scriptural and therefore insisted upon in this assembly.

Our joyousness will never degenerate to mere excitability.

Childlike simplicity and faith can transcend patterns of pomp and pride which society dictates we accept.  But child-like is not child-ish, and so we refuse to be bound to the idea that true simplicity is either glib or just emotional.  The joy and release in laughter, applause, shouting or tears involve the emotions, but for understood reasons, are not merely sensational ones.  True freedom is as thoughtful as it is liberated, and we choose to live in that freeing truth.

In all, our prayerful wish is to live as the Chruch manifested at her birth:  "Every day  they continued to meet together in the temple courts.  They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people.  And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."  Acts 2:46-47