Ultimate Goal: The glory of God—to refocus the affections of our hearts toward Jesus and away from ourselves
“Do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31)
Vision: To help every man, woman, and child who comes to Hill Country Church worship God in spirit and truth
Purpose: To use Sunday mornings to help integrate the life-transforming power of Jesus into everyday life through authentic worship. We recognize that “worship” is not merely an event that happens once a week on Sundays, but is a lifestyle of Jesus-exalting, self-sacrificing, others-serving love and esteem toward God. Worship must be the theme of our life between Sundays.
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Rom. 12:1)
Philosophy of Worship :: Guiding Principles for Corporate Worship*
1. God-centeredness
The highest priority of our lives is to glorify God through Jesus Christ. Therefore we desire that every aspect our time together on Sundays be characterized by God-centeredness, not self-centeredness. In everything we do we want God to be the central focus of all our affections, recognizing that as we exalt the name of Christ, and declare his worth publicly, we are strengthened by the Holy Spirit and transformed by the power of Jesus (1 Cor. 10:31). (more…)
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If you really want to follow the development of conservative Christianity, track its musical hits. In the early 1900s you might have heard “The Old Rugged Cross,” a celebration of the atonement. By the 1980s you could have shared the Jesus-is-my-buddy intimacy of “Shine, Jesus, Shine.” And today, more and more top songs feature a God who is very big, while we are…well, hark the David Crowder Band: “I am full of earth/ You are heaven’s worth/ I am stained with dirt/ Prone to depravity.”
“Its too bad Christianity is not true.” That is what Scott, a highly educated, relatively wealthy scientist with multiple degrees from multiple universities said to me as we talked about Jesus over lunch. “It would be the greatest thing to have ever happened in the history of the world,” he said, “if only it were true.” Due to his presuppositions about the universe there was no room for God in Scott’s thinking. He wished it were true, but knew that it was not. At least that’s what Scott wanted me to think. I don’t know, he may have actually believed that what he was saying accurately pictured the desires of his heart. Somehow, I don’t think that Scott’s “wishful thinking” was really rooted in a clear understanding of who Jesus claimed to be. What Scott did not say is that he wished Christianity were true so that he could give his whole life to Christ, be ridiculed by the scientific community, lose all his prestige and money, and perhaps even die on the mission field someday. He did not wish for that. So, what is it about Christianity that Scott wished to be true? 
