About the Divine Service

Worship at St John Ev. Lutheran Church, is formal, reverent, and distinctively Lutheran. We want to make a clear confession that worship is this congregation’s central feature. God’s love is most clearly demonstrated when He distributes His gifts of Word and Sacrament to the body of Christ in the Divine Service.

Formal  (the liturgy not the clothing)

The liturgy is not dependent upon what the people wear. Some people dress for our worship services in casual clothing (especially on the weekday services) and some men wear suits and some women wear dresses. Despite the attire of those gathered, the liturgy itself is formal. That means that it is planned and deliberate. It is not spontaneous. So also that means that it is formal in its tone rather than chatty, and that it takes up topics of the utmost importance and eternal consequence.

The sermons tend toward formality also. The Word of God is preached through Law and Gospel. The pastor prepares all week for the sermons with deliberate study. The preacher always seeks to be relevant and preach sermons that are always contemporary to the needs of the people taking note of what is going on in the culture around us.