“We value the Bible as God’s authoritative Word, study it together, and build our lives on its truth.”
Access digital exclusive resources including: prayers, music, sermon outlines, and worship practices.
Additional resources for all categories are available in the downloadable Compelling Worship workbook.
Prayer
Forming Us Into a Unified, Faithful Community
Prayers designed to help individuals, leaders, and congregations of all shapes, ages, and sizes pray with a common heart, aligning our voices with God’s purposes and with one another.
Eating the Ancient, Bitter, Bitter Scroll: A Reading
Four readers needed, with the fourth needing to be a woman. This is a circle of four people talking with each other in some sense–but also participating in a liturgical reading with whatever connotation that phrase may bring. Each time a Bible passage is read, the person reading it needs to take a step forward to give it more emphasis.
The four people need to see the struggle to be able to express it, but at the same time not get too wrapped up in the struggle because they are still committed to eating the scroll. However, because the dialogue does not give answers to these hard passages, participants and the gathered group will be left with tension rather than resolution.
Music
Facilitating a Shared BIC Identity Through Music
We’ve selected five songs centered on Believing the Bible to serve as a resource for musical worship and as a catalyst for new creativity and imagination. For each featured song we’ve provided all the information you need to use it in your next worship service, including:
- optimal keys
- licensing coverage
- recordings
- links to download chord charts and lead sheets (some free!)
Access Song Recommendations & Resources
King of Kings/Rey de Reyes
B. Ligertwood/J. Ingram/S. Ligertwood
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: C, D
Licensing Coverage: CCLI, Multitracks.com
Chart/Lead Sheet: CCLI, praisecharts
Recording(s): Awake (Hillsong Worship), Rey De Reyes (Hillsong en Español)
The Solid Rock (My Hope is Built)
E. Mote/W.B. Bradbury
Song Perspective: Personal
Optimal Keys: D, Eb, E, F
Licensing Coverage: Public domain
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship, #427 HPW*
Recording(s): My Hope and Stay: Hymns Project, Vol. II (Norton Hall Band)
Promises/Promesas
A. Moses/D. Bowe/J. Barnes/K. Alvarado/L. Marin/P.C. Gaines
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: A, Bb
Licensing Coverage: CCLI, Multitracks.com
Chart/Lead Sheet: CCLI
Recording(s): Promises (Maverick City Music); Venga Tu Reino (Maverick City Musica)
Speak, O Lord
K. Getty/S. Townend
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: Bb, C, D
Licensing Coverage: CCLI, Multitracks.com
Chart/Lead Sheet: CCLI, praisecharts
Recording(s): In Christ Alone (Keith and Kristyn Getty)
We Come
K. Leaman
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: C, D
Licensing Coverage: Used with permission
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship
Recording(s): Compelling Worship (Towel and Basin Worship Collective)
Additional Songs
As For Me (Chris Tomlin), Tenemos Esperanza (F. Paguro), Thy Word/Where Else Could I Go? (Shane & Shane), We Will Remember (T. Walker), Word of God Speak (Bart Millard)
*Hymns for Praise and Worship © 1984 Evangel Press
Word
Teaching and Studying Our BIC Core Values
The act of reading Scripture together is itself an experience of God’s love, through which we preach to our hearts the good news of Jesus, and reshape our experience of the world around this reality. Through sermons, teaching, and corporate study, our core values move from being abstract ideas to convictions written on the hearts of each one of us. These sermon outlines are designed to equip churches to teach and study through our BIC core values.
The outlines for Believing the Bible begin on page 20 and include:
- A Firm Foundation | Matthew 7:24-27
- Hearing and Doing | James 1:22-25
- The Equipping Word | 2 Timothy 3:14-17
Practices
From Spectators to Active Participants
These practices aim to whet our spiritual appetites with many different practices that can help us to live lives of worship with our church families. Some practices may seem out of your comfort zone as a congregation, but you may be surprised to observe the reactions that come from trying something unexpected in the life of the church. There is so much beauty in seeing a congregation transform from a group of spectators to active participants in meaningful worship.
Reading with Jesus Seminar
A Brethren in Christ Approach to Biblical Hermeneutics
In the fall of 2025, the BIC sponsored a series of Impact Seminars focused on how the Brethren in Christ interpret Scripture through the lens of Christ. The seminar from Pastor Zach Spidel is available on video* and could be broken down for a small group or Bible study to watch together over several weeks.
In addition to watching the recordings, we recommend downloading these additional materials, including an advance letter, a pre-reading document, BIC statement on the Bible, the full Power Point presentation, and an annotated bibliography.
About Zach Spidel – Zach pastors East Dayton Fellowship (Ohio) and holds a Ph.D. with a focus on patristic hermeneutics.
*This seminar was recorded via a live stream that experienced a temporary interruption, which is why it is divided into two parts.