Music Ministry Vision

Worship at Christ Church seeks to heed and give new voice to the larger church's witness in song to God's character, saving acts, and transformation of creation — a witness that spans the centuries and spans the globe. In the visions of worship that close our Scriptures, songs go up to God from the redeemed of "every tribe and language and people and nation" and, as the age of the Church has moved forward, from the redeemed of every time, from the psalmists of Israel through the new songs of the early Church through the new expressions of faith and hope sung in each successive age.

Our choral programs therefore include a wide range of musical offerings, from Gregorian and Anglican chant to Renaissance motets to Classical anthems to spirituals and Gospel to contemporary praise.

Our congregational singing reaches back to the Reformation chorales and Wesleyan hymns that remind us of the foundations of our faith, out to Hispanic, African, Caribbean, and Oriental songs of worship, back to Gospel songs of assurance and hope, and forward to new songs giving expression to new experiences of God's presence in our midst.

Key Principles

The role of music in our worship is guided by a few key principles: The songs we sing, whether choral or congregational, should

1. Reflect sound theology and ethics,
2. Richly inform our spiritual practice and transformation into mature disciples,
3. Orient us toward what God desires to work within us, and
4. Lift us into the presence of God, who is worshiped in the beauty of holiness.