What We Believe
Welcome to Grace! The purpose of Grace Community Chapel is to glorify God by making disciples of Jesus Christ who worship God, build up one another and witness to the world. Our desire at Grace Community Chapel is:
To proclaim, teach, and preach the Gospel of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. To glorify God in the church and throughout the world by being a Christian community of fellowship, love, and benevolence. To lead people at home and abroad to faith in Jesus Christ and help them to strengthen their faith.
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.
Grace was "born" in 1982 when Hope Church in St. Louis sent out a group to start a new ministry in St. Charles County. After meeting in homes and a school, in 1985 we moved into the chapel and early childhood area. By 1988 we expanded the building to its current size to keep up with the increasing needs of the ministry. As we enter the new millennium Grace continues to witness God's hand of blessing.
Here, you will find a ministry committed to proclaiming the love of God as revealed in the person of His Son Jesus Christ. Our prayer for you is that you will experience the Grace of God in you life and that we might work together with Him to reach out to whose who need the hope only He has to offer!
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 Guidlines 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.
Core Values:
We value the authority and sufficiency of God's Word and proclaim it without compromise.
We value fulfilling the Great Commission by sending missionaries and supporting them materially and spiritually.
We value fulfilling the Great Commission by reaching out to family, friends, and community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We value worship in which God is glorified and the believer is edified, genuinely responding to God.
We value families and seek to support them through the ministry of the church.
We value changed lives that result from the work of the Holy Spirit, the application of the Word of God, and prayer.
We value a fellowship of believers that celebrates unity in Christ and encourages service according to our individual gifts.
We value a disciple-making ministry that reaches people at their level of spiritual growth, moving them towards maturity in Christ.
We value human life, created in the image of God, from conception to natural death.
