Grace Community Church

Grace Community Church is a confessional church that exists to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. We are committed to the historic Christian faith as expressed in the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (Second London Confession). We stand firmly on the sufficiency, authority, and inerrancy of Scripture, holding to the doctrines of the Reformation.

We affirm the 1689 London Baptist Confession as a faithful summary of biblical doctrine, aligning with the historic beliefs of Reformed Baptists throughout church history. While Scripture alone is our final authority, the confession serves as a helpful guide for teaching, unity, and doctrinal clarity.

What We Believe

Who is God?

God is spirit. Infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. He eternally exists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All three are one God, same in substance, equal in power and glory.

John 4:24; Job 11:7,8,9; Psalm 110:2; James 1:17; Exodus 3:14; Psalm 147:5; 1 John 5:7; Matthew 28:19

The Authority of the Bible

The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving Knowledge, Faith and Obedience; Although the light of Nature, and the works of Creation and Providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will, which is necessary unto Salvation. Therefore it pleased the Lord at certain times, and in diverse manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that His will unto his Church; and afterward for the better preserving, and propagating of the Truth, and for the more sure establishment, and comfort of the Church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the World, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary,

those former ways of God’s revealing his will unto

his people being now ceased.

II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:21; John 10:35

The Exclusivity of Christ

We affirm that there is only one Savior of mankind, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the eternally begotten Son of God - being fully God and fully man, he has paid the penalty for sin due by the elect on the Cross. On the third day after his crucifixion, he rose again from dead. After continued ministry and appearances to his disciples, he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God. He will come in power to judge the living in the dead and assume his role as

King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Galatians1:6-9; Romans 1:18-32; I Timothy 2:5,6; Acts 4:12

The Community of Worship

God alone determines how He is to be worshiped. FOllowing the Regulative Principle of Worship (rooted in Scripture -- Deuteronomy 12:32; John 4:24; Colossians 2:23), we structure our worship services only around elements commanded or exemplified in the Bible.

This means we prioritize

  • The Reading and Preaching of Scripture (1 Timothy 4:13; 2 Timothy 4:2)
  • Prayer (Acts 2:42; 1 Timothy 2:1)
  • Singing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16)
  • The Sacraments (Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)
  • The Confession of Sin and Assurance of Pardon (Isaiah 6)