Worship services focus on readings from the Bible which point to Jesus as our Savior and teach us about the meaning of life with him. All sermons, hymns, prayers, music, and singing revolve around the Scripture readings each week.
We strive for worship that is a mixture of both traditional and contemporary.
Our services typically last about an hour with two services to choose from. Our Early Family Service starts Sundays and 9am and is designed for young families with children. Our more traditional service is at 10:00am and has more hymns that some older parishioners prefer. We’ll work hard to make sure you feel welcome, but we’ll also tell it like it is. We want to help you come face to face with your living and loving God.
The focus of Sunday morning worship is always Jesus and the Bible. To make that happen, we are a church that follows an order of service — a liturgy. In the message and sacramental meal, in specially selected Bible readings, and in carefully crafted songs, prayers, and creeds, the liturgy proclaims the good news about Jesus from start to finish.
We work to keep the entire body together
We seek to enfold young people into the life of the entire church and encourage them to participate in worship with the whole body of Christ. Children can learn about God next to the people who play the most important role in their formation as people — their parents.
For your convenience, we have a Sunday School program and the Family Room is available with audio of the service where you can take your children if they need a moment.
Several of our members have small children — we love hearing the sound of those little ones echoing inside the walls of our church.
We gather an offering, but we don’t require that you donate any money
The members of St. Paul Lutheran have joined together to support the Lord’s work in this community and around the world. The offering is their way of contributing to the financial needs of that work. Without it we would not be able to continue our work in and around Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
So, while an offering plate will be passed, no one here expects our guests and visitors to donate money unless they wish to.
We often celebrate the Lord’s Supper on the 1st and 4th Sundays at the Celebration and Praise Service @ 9:00 a.m. and every 2nd and 4th Sunday at the 10:00 a.m. traditional service.
This sacramental meal is an expression of unity, agreement, and spiritual intimacy between the people who have committed themselves to membership in this church body. We sincerely desire that all who come to us will eventually join us in the privileges and responsibilities of membership. We also understand that no one can make that kind of commitment without proper instruction. To help people along that path of commitment we offer instructional classes that, upon completion, open the door to full membership in the congregation and participation in the Lord’s Supper.
We are theologically conservative Lutherans
The Lutheran Church traces its history to a man named Martin Luther, a church reformer who lived primarily in the 16th century. That was a long time ago, but his work has influenced Christianity ever since that time.
Our church is set firmly in the Lutheran tradition. Though not all Lutherans are similar, we are among the theologically conservative, which means we reflect what the Bible teaches with Lutheran theological emphasis.
We believe that people are born sinful, in other words people can’t help but do wrong and need to be rescued from sin and wrongdoing. Jesus is that rescuer. He is given to us by God’s undeserved love. We come to know him through the Bible. We are saved only by faith in him.
