Sunday Worship

Welcome to Cornerstone Bible Church! We look forward to having you join us for Sunday worship – it is truly the highlight of our week, as we gather together to sing, pray, and listen to the preaching of God’s Word. God sent His Son into the world to save sinners and bring them into a relationship with Himself and into fellowship with one another.

We gather on Sundays in keeping with the biblical pattern and the witness of thousands of years of church history. This practice is a central part of God’s design for His church. Scripture calls Sunday, "The Lord’s Day," because it is the day Jesus rose from the dead. For Christians, it is the most significant event of the week, offering a unique opportunity to confess the gospel publicly, praise God, and hear Him speak to us. Our Sunday gathering is also a vital part of our discipleship strategy and a primary means by which God grows us spiritually. We want to depend on God and work at maximizing the glory we can bring Him and at enjoying all the good He wants to give us as we meet together.

Service details and the pastor’s sermon study guides can be found in the weekly newsletter.

Location and Time

Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and Sunday evenings (except the last Sunday of each month) at 6:00 p.m.

Livestream is available for our 8:30 a.m. service here.

We meet at 112 E Walnut Ave., Fullerton, CA 92832

What to Expect

Our desire is to help make your visit the best experience possible! Please stop by one of our staffed welcome table at either entrance to our building. You can find helpful information about our church and our various ministries here. We also invite you to fill out a welcome card if you’d like to be added to our church email list, share a prayer request, or connect with one of our pastors.

We would love to get to know you better and answer any questions you may have!

Parking

Please click here to view an annotated Google map for parking areas. Visitors, please feel free to park in one of the spots marked as "Visitors Parking" right in front the church building.

Children in Service

We love having children join their parents during the worship service. We believe that having children in service with us is an important part of children growing up in a Christian home. As they become older, their ability to understand God’s Word will grow. But from the youngest ages, they’ll see how seriously their parents take the weekly meeting of God’s people, where parents sing wholeheartedly, pray passionately and listen to God’s Word eagerly. By being in church with us, our kids get to see how much we love church!

We know that it can take time to adjust to having kids in service. If you have any questions about how to help your child get used to being in service, we’d love to spend time with you answering your questions. Some practical suggestions are in the second half of the following article: “The Family: Together in God’s Presence.” You can also hear our senior pastor Joshua Mack and his wife Marda discuss cultivating this discipline in the second half of this episode of the pastor's podcast.

Childcare (under 5 years)

Childcare for infants through age 5 is available during both worship services. Additionally, we have an infants room for nursing mothers with a livestream of the service.

• Infant Pebbles: Birth to 1 y.o.
• Little Pebbles: 1 y.o. (or walkers) – 3 y.o.
• Big Pebbles: 3 y.o. (potty-trained) – 5 y.o.

Children's Ministry (K–6)

While we encourage parents to bring their children with them to worship service, Cornerstone Bible Church also has the privilege of offering a Children’s Ministry for Kindergarten through Sixth Grade during second service (10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.).

Our Order of Worship

When we gather to worship God, the central question isn't what we desire or enjoy, but what He commands. He reveals how to worship Him in the Bible. We therefore shape every part of our worship service by what He tells us to do. In Scripture, He commands His church to engage in these acts of worship regularly as they gather: praying the Word, singing the Word, reading the Word, preaching the Word, and ‘seeing’ the Word through the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

Sunday Mornings

Personal Preparation

God wants us to worship Him from the heart. Because we believe God is so important and worshiping Him is such a privilege, we want to take some time before the service begins to prepare ourselves to approach Him with faith, love, fear, joy, hope and gratitude.

Welcome and Announcements

We’re a family of believers partnering together to glorify God, serve one another and advance the cause of Christ. This short time of announcements before the service officially begins is intended to help visitors know they are loved and welcomed and members get caught up with some of what God’s doing here at the church.

Call to Worship

We begin the service by either reading Scripture or reflecting on a truth, reminding us that God initiated this gathering. This turns our attention from daily concerns to who God is, what He has done, and how He wants us to respond. An opening prayer follows, praising God and asking Him to work in our hearts through our gathering.

Congregational Singing

The Psalms tell us to "shout for joy in the Lord" and that "praise befits the righteous." (Psalm 33:1) Paul commands us to "let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God." (Ephesians 5:19) We attempt to choose songs that are biblically true, God glorifying, spiritually edifying and easy to sing. We encourage you to happily sing as loudly as you can.

Scripture Reading

The Bible tells us that we should be devoted to the public reading of Scripture. (1 Timothy 4:13) We usually read a passage that helps us prepare for and benefit from the message that will be preached that day.

Pastoral Prayer

We are needy and express our dependence on God through prayer. The pastoral prayer is an intercessory prayer generally prayed by one of our elders. In this prayer, the person praying is talking to God on behalf of the congregation for various concerns in our lives, the church and the world.

Giving

God does not need us. But He graciously gives us the opportunity to partner with Him in His cause by giving our money to care for His church and further gospel promoting ministries around our community and the world.

The Sermon

God’s Word teaches us what we need to know about who He is, how to be saved, and how to live in a way that honors Him and is good for us. The sermon is when God most clearly speaks to us now through what He has previously said in His Word. Our preachers exist to serve Him and communicate His message to the congregation by accurately explaining the meaning of the text of Scripture and passionately communicating its significance for contemporary listeners. To accomplish this, they want both the content and intent of their sermon to be controlled by the content and intent of whatever particular passage of Scripture they are declaring.

The goal of our preachers is bigger than simply providing more information about the Bible – they are aiming to help God’s people respond in ways that are appropriate to the passage being preached. This means listeners have a responsibility as well. We want to listen to preaching having prepared ourselves to benefit, humbly asking what God is intending to teach us, desiring to see the glory of Christ in Scriptures, and willing to submit to what it says.

The Lord's Supper

On the first Sunday of the month we enjoy the Lord’s Supper together. The Lord’s Supper is a fellowship meal with God and one another in the local church. It symbolizes the work of Jesus Christ for His people and is a means of grace to nourish, strengthen, and encourage the faith of believers. It is an opportunity to express our need for the gospel, commitment to Christ and to one another.

In the Lord’s Supper we look:

• Backward – remembering Christ’s body broken and His blood shed for us on the cross
• Outward – celebrating the fellowship we have with our brothers and sisters
• Upward – depending on Jesus to give sustaining grace to His people
• Inward – examining our hearts and ensure that we’re walking in faith and repentance
• Forward – anticipating the glorious day when Jesus will return and we will enjoy the fulfillment of all God’s promises of salvation.

Personal Response

When God speaks, we must respond.

We close our service with an opportunity to do that through song and a time of reflection and prayer. As we quietly reflect on the message, we are asking God to show us where we need to repent, what we need to believe, how we should be comforted, and how we should change and to give us strength to do so.

Sunday Evenings

Sunday evening services are an opportunity to hear from one another what the Lord is doing in our lives, give us space to build friendships with one another, communicate our mission and vision as a church, and spend time in corporate prayer. They will not be a repeat or substitute for Sunday morning.

For more information about why we have evening services, please see this flyer.

Fellowship

We need each other. There are so many one another commands in the Scripture. God has given believers gifts to use for the good of others. We come together again from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on a Sunday evening to spend time eating with one another, getting to know one another, and showing love for one another.

Time in the Word

At 6 p.m., once we have prayed together, we hear from a member of the church. We will hear a short devotional from a passage of Scripture, or we will hear a testimony of what God is teaching them and how He is changing them, or we’ll look at God’s Word and have a time of discussion about how to partner together effectively as a local church for the cause of Christ.

Corporate Prayer

We then spend the rest of our time together lifting our petitions and praises as a church family to God.