New Worship Schedule

We now have 4 worship experiences in 2 venues on our campus. At 8:30am we have Main Worship in our Sanctuary and The Cafe. in our renovated Fellowship Hall. Both experiences are one hour in length and feature the same sermon delivered by our pastor, Larry Yarborough. Our Sunday School hour is 9:45am. During that time we encourage all adults to attend one of our many groups for each stage of life. After Sunday School, we have 2 more worship experiences at 11:00am; Main Worship and The Cafe.

Lifestyle of Worship - John Penfield, Worship Pastor

We are created to worship. Psalm147:1 reads "Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praise to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is becoming to the upright." Praise looks good on you. Praise lifts your spirit and attitude. We continue to strive to be a worshipping people at FBC Gallatin. Our ministries and organizations involve people in acts of worship through various activities, gatherings, and service projects. We are also moving forward in ways to accommodate more people in corporate gatherings. Easter Sunday is the launch date for another worship venue on our campus to facilitate our efforts to reach more people in our area that are not connected to a church.

The song "Love the Lord" is based on the first and greatest commandment found in Deuteronomy 6:5. This verse commands us to love the Lord your God with ALL your heart, with ALL your soul, with ALL your mind, and with ALL your strength. This verse helps us realize that worship is more than singing a song. Worship is a lifestyle. It is an outward expression of an inward reality. It is a response to revelation. We must make a heart and mind decision to continually seek first the Kingdom of God, and to obey the Lord in every aspect of your life; every breath you take, every move you make, you desire to please the Lord. It is all about our personal time with Him in study and prayer; it is all about how we treat other people throughout each day; it is all about how we act when no one else is watching; it is all about how we speak of our faith in God publicly. Worship is a lifestyle. Worship is not in the words spoken or sung, in an instrument being skillfully played. Worship is carried in the heart of the person releasing those words and that person playing that instrument.

Sunday morning corporate worship is only as good as our Monday through Saturday life sacrifice. Daily worship - the way we act and live - is directly affected by our personal worship time we spend with God each day. We must keep our lives in tune with God in order to live in harmony with others and to be a sacrifice of praise to our God.

Paul B. Clark, Jr., in his book, Tune My Heart to Sing Thy Grace, states it this way, "Tuning my heart to sing God's grace in worship is much more than a metaphor for a thematic study. It is a lifelong engagement that calls for a full-life commitment and is itself totally dependent upon the sovereign and powerful God whose name it claims and proposes to exalt. Like the guitar string, the heart cannot be tuned without the application and release of tension. Life is lived in a context of many distractions and conflicting appeal that press us in directions that loosen our proverbial strings away from the pitches intended by the Master. Obviously, the guitar is not a self-tuning instrument. Likewise, it is futile for us to attempt to tune our own hearts to sing the praise of the Lord?s grace. A right heart is a necessary ingredient for singing our worship in a manner pleasing to God and in harmony with our fellow believers."

Prayer for today: Lord, create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me ( Psalm 51:10).

Let my "life" be a song of praise to You.