Worship

 

Worship is the opportunity for the church — the people of God, the body of Christ, and the fellowship of the Spirit — to meet with her God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We meet with God in terms of the covenant that God has established with us, whereby He promises to be our God and he summons us to be His people.

 

Our worship is structured by this covenant relationship. God speaks to us in His Word (the call to worship, Scripture readings, the preaching of the Word, and the celebration of the Lord's Supper), and we respond with hymns of praise, prayer, and offerings.

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OUR PASTOR

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Rev. Dr. William D. Dennison (B.A. Geneva College; M.Div./Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia; Ph. D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Michigan State University). Pastor Bill comes to Emmanuel OPC after years as a professional educator, mainly teaching high school Bible at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, MI and teaching in the field of humanities at Covenant College on Lookout Mountain, GA. He has been received as Emeritus Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Covenant College. He was ordained as a teaching elder in the OPC in 1995. In the OPC, he is the Instructor of Apologetics for the Ministerial Training Institute of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (MTIOPC). He has authored a number of books and articles. His wife, Patricia Atria Dennison is a graduate of Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. and trained at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Philadelphia as a Medical Technologist, working in the field for 17 years in Michigan. Upon receiving her Masters degree in Business Management, she moved to the medical insurance field and, then, became the director of the Volunteers in Medicine clinic for the uninsured and, eventually, served the Medical Society of Chattanooga, TN. She also served on the Board for the Homeless Health Care Center Chattanooga. Bill and Pat have been married for nearly 49 years and have three children and seven grandchildren.

 

What we believe

 

Simply put we believe the Bible and all it teaches. This is why we say that the primary standard of our church is the Word of God, contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, our only infallible rule of faith and practice.

Our secondary standards, subordinate to the Word of God, are the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms, which contain the system of doctrine found in Scripture. In other words, we believe that these accurately represent what the Bible teaches.

 
 

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