Beliefs

At Grace, you will find a ministry committed to proclaiming the love of God as revealed in the person of His Son Jesus Christ. We offer you a place to actively worship the Lord, enjoy challenging teaching from the Bible, and hear of God’s work in the lives of others. Please contact us with comments or questions about Grace, Jesus Christ, or your salvation. Our beliefs and core values are biblically based.

Membership in Grace Community Chapel is open to all persons thirteen years of age and older who believe in and have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and who accept and agree with the Doctrinal Statement of the Church.

We believe:

1. We believe the sixty-six books of the Bible to be the only inspired, authoritative Word of God, inerrant in the original manuscripts. (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21)

2. We believe that there is one God, the Creator, eternally existent in three Persons–Father, Son and Holy Spirit–each having the same essence and attributes. (2 Corinthians 13:14; Matthew 28:19)

3. We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man in indivisible union. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary atonement through His shed blood, His death and bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His future bodily return in power and glory. (John 1:1,14; Philippians 2:6-8; 1 Timothy 3:16; Revelation 19:11-16; I Corinthians 15:1-8)

4. We believe the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, filling them as they yield to Him with the goal of conforming them to the image of Christ. (Titus 3:5; 1 Corinthians 3:16, 12:13; Ephesians 1:13, 5:18)

5. We believe that salvation is a gift of God and is received by man through faith alone in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for sin. We believe that man is justified by grace through faith apart from works and that all true believers have eternal life. Repentance is a vital part of faith and not a separate and independent condition of salvation. (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16; I John 5:10-13; Luke 24:45-47)

6. We believe that the true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the Body of Christ of which He is the Head. (Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22-23, 2:19-22)

7. We believe that water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church during the present age. They are, however, not to be regarded as means of salvation. (Acts 8:12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28)

8. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting glory in heaven with God and the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment in hell apart from God. (2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 22:3-5, 20:15; Daniel 12:2)

For further information about our beliefs, you may look in our Doctrinal Guidelines for Teachers and Leaders . The document is in PDF format, and can either be right-clicked and saved on your hard drive for further reading or printing or if you have Adobe Reader installed, just click here and it will open for you automatically.

Communion is open to all who have trusted Christ as Savior whether members of Grace or not and is observed on the first Sunday of each month.