Every Sunday, over 700 Charlotteans gather in a converted trucking terminal in the shadow of Uptown to learn, worship, and experience community.

Warehouse is about a lot more than just a Sunday morning service, but we value that opportunity to come together for an experience that we consider distinctly “Warehouse,” when we can experience God and community authentically through music, teaching, spoken word, and art. Each week, about 1 in 5 of the people sitting in our seats are just exploring faith, and have likely been here less than three weeks.

The gathering is broken up into four major sections.

They have been brought together in an intentional way in order to build an experience that creates an environment where anyone – from someone just exploring faith to a life-long Christian – can have the opportunity to examine their life and take real lessons on how they live home.

• ONE : the call to community

The morning starts with music that’s a little louder than most people would expect, but is purely pointed toward God, and helps to orient us to Him. One of our community members welcomes the whole crowd and tells about what is going on at Warehouse while orienting us specifically to what we’ll be talking about that day.

• TWO : the lament

The Psalms of David are built on the Lament, which is a real, guttural, potent and often painful question about real life. This question is raised through popular culture — music from the radio, original art, a scene from a movie. We want to raise a question that real people are asking, and that needs to be answered with good biblical teaching.

• THREE : the teaching

We believe that the Bible is God’s completely true Story about who he is, what he has done, what he is doing, and what he will do. Our teaching team works hard to teach from the Bible and into people’s lives. In the end, we want to answer the question raised by the lament in a way that makes sense in Charlotte in the 21st century.

• FOUR : the response

Music is a life force at Warehouse. Our building is filled with musicians, and one of three teams leads the response and worship section of each week’s gathering. Ancient crashes into modern, and soulful music is layered together to lead the gathered in responding to His teaching and pure worship of Him.

So what does it look like?

Here’s an example service from a few weeks ago in the Life of David series:

the Call // London Town by John Mark McMillan

the Lament // Intervention by Arcade Fire
the Question: Why am I persecuted?

Teaching // the Choice to Spare Saul
Scripture: 1 Samuel 24:1-15, Psalm 131
the Big Idea: We can live above our pain and anger when we see the holiness and beauty in life.

Response // Psalm 131 by Waterdeep, Deliver Me by David Crowder, Awaken the Dawn by Delirious, Awaken by Nathan Yost & Dusti Jensen, All You Ask by Steve Whitby
the Big Hope: When my eyes are set on God, I can live profoundly.

If you want to engage in helping to produce the Sunday morning gathering, contact Steve Whitby, Pastor of Creativity.

Our gatherings are held at 9.00 and 10.40 AM each week, regardless of the weather.