worship at cfa - a message from our worship pastor

Worship can be a powerful experience—one that unites our hearts with the heart of God.  We're greatly changed when that happens.  We can't explain it, but we know what it feels like.  Corporate worship isn't just about the feelings and the experiences, though.  Something even greater—something that involves the Church body—happens when we worship with one another. 
            In John 17, Jesus prays for Himself, for His disciples, and for the believers to come (that's us).  The one thing for the believers to come that He specifically prays for is unity.  That the believers to come will be of one mind and one heart, one purpose and one spirit, just as He and the Father are one.  In the book of Acts, we see that God does miraculous things, powerful things through a church body that is unified in its beliefs, purpose, spiritual direction, and through a church body that is continually meeting together.  This is my heart for cfa.
            My desire for the body of cfa is that we be of one heart and one purpose, and that God will therefore do more in and through cfa than we could have ever hoped for or imagined.  Yes, worship is powerful, it feels good, it's awesome to enter into the presence of God in this way.  But something happens when we seek the face of God together—there are spiritual bonds that are created.  My prayer is that those spiritual bonds would be created and strengthened between the individual members of cfa, specifically through worship, so that we might become a body of believers that is unified for the purposes and desires of God—that we might fulfill the prayer that Jesus prayed 2,000 years ago. 

--Calie Garrett, cfa worship pastor