Grace Baptist Church

Grace exists to bring glory to God by making fully devoted followers of Christ who passionately love God and people. We believe this happens through Gospel-Centered worship, community, service, and disciple-making. Why glory to God? God is full of glory, beauty, love, and holiness. As a Trinity God has always shared glory within Himself. When He created us He shared His glory with us by making us in His image. As image bearers we are created to share God’s glory with others and reflect that glory back to God. That’s what it means to “bring glory to God.” Why make fully devoted followers of Christ? Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. As such He is the ultimate image bearer. When we learn to follow Him we too are changed into the image of Jesus who is the ultimate image of God. To be a “fully devoted follower of Christ” doesn’t mean that we just try to copy what Jesus did or try hard to be like Him. It means that we live a life of faith in His empowering grace in our lives that supplies all we need for life. His life exchanged for ours! Why love God and others? Love for God and others will be the overflow of our faith in what Jesus has done for us when He lived the perfect life that we could never live and died the death that we deserve to die. Faith and gratitude should result in a life of love and devotion to God which is expressed as love and devotion to others. Why Gospel Centered? The gospel is the story of the triune God reconciling man and creation to Himself and rescuing us from our worst enemy: ourselves. Sin is anything that drives us away from God and toward something that God created: worshipping the creation instead of the Creator. We are rescued from sin through the life, death, resurrection and future return of Jesus as our substitute. All of this was accomplished by the power of the Holy Spirit for God’s glory and the Church’s joy. The Gospel stands at the center of God’s redemptive plan for mankind. It most clearly reflects who He is and what He has done. When we talk about our church being Gospel Centered we mean that all we do flows from the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. We do not “do” worship, community, discipleship or service in order to gain God’s grace. Rather we live from the overflow of His grace, which empowers our community, service, and disciple-making through our worship of God.