Exhausting schedules, many responsibilities, critical decisions, and endless demands on your time—does this sound like your week?   Many people are looking for a place of quiet rest, a place where they can be still, maybe talk to God, or maybe just let God talk to them.  Worship can be a time for joyful celebrating and exuberant praise, but sometimes we also may find such spiritual refreshment in worship that is still, reflective, and meditative.

Contemplative Worship is a time in which we quiet ourselves in order to open our souls to the ministry of God within. Contemplative Worship waits for God in the silence; in the stillness we hear the voice of God with our hearts. Contemplative Worship is an opportunity to find our spiritual rhythm in the rhythm of Jesus, a rhythm of moving into prayer and communion with God before going out to engage the world in meaningful ministry.

Contemplative Worship does not require special skills or experience, it merely requires consent:  to sit with God, to be open to however God chooses to move within our lives and speak to us.  Nothing more.

Historically, contemplation has implied two things: fire and love. Contemplative Worship kindles the inner fire of the Spirit of God. Further, Contemplative Worship grows us in love and devotion for God. The aim is an intimacy of relationship that comes from falling deeply in love with One who loves us and gives Himself for us.

Bayshore Baptist Church provides opportunities for contemplative worship at several times during the year. The sanctuary is open during the day and often during the weekfor extended times of stillness, Scripture readings, music, sacred reading, healing prayer, meditation, and Holy Communion.