
The Values and Beliefs of Grace Community Church
Values
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Jesus is the central focus of our lives.
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People matter to God and to us.
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Authentic change is possible through the power of God’s Spirit and prayer.
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We must love one another more than we love our opinions.
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The Goal of our gatherings is to celebrate and worship God.
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Our methods must be culturally relevant and our message biblically pure.
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The ministry is the task of all the members, not just the paid staff.
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Maturity results from the balance of corporate worship celebrations and small group participation.
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Children and Youth will always be a priority in our ministry.
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Integrity, accountability and excellence will guide every decision.
Beliefs
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We acknowledge the Creator-God as our Heavenly Father, infinitely perfect and intimately acquainted with all our ways.
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We proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, God in the flesh, the object of our worship and the subject of our praise.
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We recognize the Holy Spirit as the third member of the Godhead, incessantly at work convicting, comforting, guiding and gifting.
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We affirm our confidence in God’s inspired, authoritative Word. We treasure the truths of the Bible and respect its reproofs.
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We confess that Adam’s fall into sin left humanity without the hope of heaven apart from a new birth, made possible by the Savior's death and bodily resurrection.
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We believe the offer of salvation is God’s love gift to all. Those who accept it by faith in Christ, apart from works, become new creatures in him.
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We anticipate our Lord’s promised return, which could be at any moment.
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We are convinced that all who have died will be brought back from beyond — believers to everlasting communion with God and unbelievers to everlasting separation from God.
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We know the Lord is continuing to enlarge his Family, the Body of Christ universal, over which he rules as Head.
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We are grateful to be a part of a local Church which exists to proclaim God’s truth, to administer the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, to stimulate growth toward maturity and to bring glory to God.
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We believe in the biblical definition of marriage between one man and one woman and in the sanctity of life.