About Us

OUR VISION

To provide an atmosphere where people can freely gather in worship of the living God, celebrating His love for us as His children and, in turn, where we will be loved, nurtured and equipped to minister to God, to one another and to those who have yet to experience His love in the power of His Holy Spirit.

PURPOSE

The following was taken from the constitution of Grace Fellowship Chapel (Article II).

We believe that...

The Church Exists For Christ

Our understanding of the purpose of the church begins with the recognition that we do not belong to ourselves, having been purchased by the death of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) and that He alone is Lord. He is the head of the Church, the One to Whom entire allegiance is due. We thus seek in all things to follow His will as revealed in Scripture. 

The Church Exists For Itself

One of the primary goals of the church must be the Life-transformation of each of its members. This requires a strong program of Bible teaching and of training in discipleship and personal evangelism. Believers are admonished to be committed to the Lord Jesus Christ; moreover, they are commanded to be committed one to another. The Body of Christ is thus composed of interdependent members, each having received from the Holy Spirit gifts which are to be exercised for the building up of the whole body and for bearing one another's spiritual and temporal burdens. We thus desire to encourage the development and use of each member's abilities, knowing that, "The whole body, as a harmonious structure knit together by that which every joint supplies, grows by the proper functioning of individual parts to its full maturity in love" (Ephesians 4:16).   

The Church Has Been Commissioned For Proclamation

Jesus said to His followers, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matthew 28:19-20). We accept this commission as a chief priority of the church collectively, and of each believer individually; and it's our desire to share as widely and effectively as possible the Good News of God's forgiveness in Christ. God offers His love to all men without distinction, and is concerned that men achieve their full potential in Christ. We thus desire that the proclamation of the Gospel be accompanied by genuine love and concern for all men and for the whole of man.

Statement of Faith

The following was taken from the constitution of Grace Fellowship Chapel (Article III).

The Bible

The sole basis of our belief is the Bible, composed of sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that Scripture in its entirety originated with God, and that it was given through the instrumentation of chosen men. WE HOLD THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND THE ONLY RULE FOR FAITH AND PRACTICE. THEY ARE THE FULL AND FINAL AUTHORITY ON ALL MATTERS ON WHICH THEY SPEAK AND THERE ARE NO OTHER WRITINGS SIMILARLY INSPIRED BY GOD.

God

We believe that there is one true God, eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - each of Whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality. In the beginning, God created out of nothing the world and all things therein, thus manifesting His power, wisdom and goodness. By His sovereign power, He continues to sustain His creation and by His providence, He orders the affairs of men and nations according to His own, wise, eternal plan.

Salvation

The central purpose of God's revelation in Scripture is to call men into fellowship with Himself. Originally created to have fellowship with God, man chose to go His own independent way. Thus, alienated from God, man suffered the corruption of his nature, rendering him unable to please God. The fall took place at the beginning of human history and all men since have suffered these consequences and are thus in need of the saving grace of God. The salvation of men is, then, wholly a work of God's grace - not the result, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness and is appropriated by faith alone. When God has begun His saving work in the heart of any man, He gives assurance in His Word that He will go on performing it until the day of its full consummation.

Jesus Christ

The saving object of faith is Jesus Christ, the eternal second Person of the Trinity. Who was united forever with a true human nature by a miraculous conception and virgin birth. He lived a life of perfect obedience to the Father and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of the Father where He, the only Mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own. He shall come again to earth, personally and visibly to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. He has instituted two ordinances - baptism and the Lord's Supper - to bear witness through visible symbols to His saving work.

The Christian Life

The essential accompaniment of a genuine saving relationship with Jesus Christ is a life of holiness and obedience wrought in the believer by the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the God-head. He was sent into the world by the Father and Son to apply to men the saving work of Christ. He enlightens the minds of sinners, awakens in them a recognition of their need of a Savior, regenerates them and at the point of salvation permanently dwells in every believer to become the source of assurance, strength, wisdom and guidance. His power and control are appropriated by faith enabling the believer to live a life of Christ-like character and to bear fruit to the glory of the Father.  

Human Destiny

The consummation of God's saving work embraces the whole man-body, soul and spirit. For all men there is a life to come, a resurrection of the body and a final judgment. At physical death, the believer enters immediately into eternal conscious fellowship with the Lord; the non-believer enters into eternal conscious separation from the Lord; bodies of all the dead shall be raised - some to a resurrection of glory, some to a resurrection of condemnation. There are two aspects of the righteous judgment of God: the judgment of believers reveals the quality of their works done in the body for the purpose of bestowing rewards, there being no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus; the judgment of non-believers reveals the depth of sin and the justice of God in allowing men to perpetuate in eternity their rejection of God.

The Church

The corollary of union with Jesus Christ is that all become members one of another. There is one true Universal Church, which is composed of all people everywhere, living and dead, who have trusted Christ alone for salvation without regard to organizational affiliation. God command us to assemble together for the purpose of worship, edification and mutual encouragement, and wherever God's people meet in obedience to this command there is a local expression of the Church. It is the responsibility of each member to keep the unity of the Spirit for the building up of the Body, to work with other members of the fellowship to show Christian concern for the needs of people everywhere and to fulfill our Lord's final command to His Church-to spread the Good News of redemption throughout the world .