Corporate Worship

Why is corporate worship important?

The ancient universities of England were founded on the discipline of theology, which was then known as ‘queen of the sciences’. The view was held then that authentic theology should be studied in the context of an ecclesial community (the church), missiology (mission) and doxology (worship). Much has changed since those days and whilst theology is no longer referred to as ‘queen of the sciences’, at CML we still believe it should be studied in the context of community, mission and worship. As well as the lectures and missional placements a high view is placed upon cultivating community and corporate worship.

What is corporate worship?

Corporate worship is when we gather together collectively as a community at CML to worship God. We gather together each morning before lectures for Morning Worship in the Upper Room prayer centre. Morning worship is an informal and student led time of worship where each student takes it in turn to facilitate the session with prayer, musical worship or other aspects of creative worship.

The Upper Room

In the CML building we have The Upper Room that is used every morning for community prayer and worship. It is a space for believers from all over Watford to come and give praise to the Lord. We encourage His people to come together from across denominations and worship in unity. Students are able to join in all of The Upper Room's public worship sessions which include half nights of prayer every month and various meetings throughout the week.

Upper Room

LST chapel

The main worship event of the week is when the CML students join with the Northwood students at the Northwood campus for a chapel service every Tuesday. As well as hearing from world-class speakers and engaging in a variety of styles of worship, this is also an important time of fellowship with students from the other campus and joining together in unity.