Welcome to Grace!
“Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised!”
Whether you are planning a vacation to our beautiful mountain community, live here full or part-time, or are just visiting the site – please know that a warm welcome, friendly people and the love of Jesus will always await you at Grace Community Church.
As well as our regular services, we offer Women’s Bible studies, Men’s activities, Youth meetings and a variety of seasonal events and outreach opportunities. A nursery and Children’s Church are available on Sundays as well as activities on Wednesdays.
You’re invited to listen to a sermon, be inspired by a devotional reading or send us your prayer requests through this site. It is our great joy to partner with the Lord in seeing people encouraged and uplifted.
We hope you’ll visit our site often, but we hope to see you in person soon!
Pastors Steve & Joyce Doerter
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Upon learning that we are “children of God”, it is important to take the next step in realizing there are responsibilities that come with that privilege. The scripture declares in the Book of Philippians that, “it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure”. God graciously works everything in us to please Him – it then becomes our responsibility to work it out in what we do and how we live. Our lives are a living, breathing letter of the work of Christ and are “read” by all men. Therefore, it’s important that we learn to trust God on a daily basis to help us walk worthy of our calling as His children. Our light will then shine for all the world to see.
Our heavenly Father’s plan for His children is to see us grow in our identity in Christ and mature in Him so that our behavior will reflect our relationship with God, our Abba or Daddy. The scriptures teach that we have the treasure of Jesus Christ in earthen vessels. God knows when we as “vessels” are weak and loves us in spite of our sinful behavior. If we have been born of God, we have been born into His family. Our identity is no longer “a sinner saved by grace”, but we have now become saints who sin at times. As one person said, “Our bad times don’t have to define who we are.” Amen! And remember...though we aren’t yet what we are going to be, we can be grateful to God that we are not what we were!
This sermon begins with a moving recording of David Gibbs relaying the story behind Francis Scott Key’s writing of the Star Spangled Banner. A brief history is also reviewed of the Christian roots of the Founding Fathers of America – roots, which for the most part, have been deleted from our children’s text books. Following this is a strong exhortation to be actively involved in the political process of the United States of America.
This sermon is a response to the anointing moving through those who prayed for one of our members. There are times that the church body needs to be a family, but there are also times when the family takes up their spiritual weapons and becomes the army of God. A family nurtures – an army fights. If we are trying to be a family when we should be fighting like an army, something is bound to “fall through the cracks”. At the same time, if we’re acting like an army when we need to be a family, again, something or someone will suffer.
The scriptures teach us that if we have been “buried” with Christ, then we shall also be raised with Him. Baptism in water is a very practical way to symbolically “bury” the “old man” which has been crucified in Christ, and then to be “raised up” into new life. Aren’t you glad we don’t have to be put into a grave, covered with dirt and dug back up again to experience this spiritual death and resurrection!