{"id":867,"date":"2016-09-19T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/nativechurch1\/?page_id=867"},"modified":"2020-02-14T18:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:33:51","slug":"what-we-believe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/what-we-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n\t
\n

OUR VISION
\n<\/strong>Grace Christian Church (GCC) is a place where people of diverse backgrounds can come together as an extended family to experience God\u2019s presence through worship, prayer, and insightful practical Bible teaching and preaching. GCC is dedicated to reaching the community with the gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as providing specified ministries of excellence to our children and teens.<\/p>\n

OUR MISSION<\/strong>
\nGCC serves to enable people to come into an ever-growing personal relationship with God.<\/p>\n

GCC CORE VALUES
\n<\/strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired, infallible, and able to transform the lives of those who hear, read, meditate, and practically apply it:<\/p>\n

\n

Joshua 1:7; 8 Psalm 1:1-3; Matthew 7:24-27;
\nJohn 6:63; II Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 4:12, 13; James 1:22-25<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

2.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe that man is lost and destined to spend eternity in hell without the intervention of a loving and kind God, who sent His Son Jesus, to provide the only way for man to enter into relationship with God the Father:<\/p>\n

\n

Romans 5:12; Romans 3:23; I Corinthians 15:21-22;
\nJohn 1:10-13; John 3:3; John 3:16-18; John 14:6;
\nEphesians 2:1-6; Colossians 2:13; Romans 10:8-10;
\nII Corinthians 5:17-18<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

3.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe that prayer is our avenue of communication and fellowship with God. Through prayer, we receive answers from our Heavenly Father as we bring our requests to Him in Jesus Name:<\/p>\n

\n

II Chronicles 7:14; Matthew 6:5-13; Matthew 7:7-8;
\nI Thessalonians 5:17; James 5:13-18; I John 5:14-15<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

4.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe in the indwelling, baptism, presence, power, ministry, and gifts of the Holy Spirit:<\/p>\n

\n

Zechariah 4:6; John 14:16-17 & 26; John 16:13-14;
\nJohn 20:22; Acts 1:4-8; Acts 2:2-4; Acts 8:4-17;
\nActs 10:44-47; I Corinthians 12:1-7; I Corinthians 14:1-32<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

5.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe in the Spirit-led, Spirit-filled, scriptural based worship in both congregational and personal life is essential to experiencing God\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n

\n

Psalms 95:6-7; John 4:23-24; Revelation 4:10; Revelation 5:14; Revelation 11:16; Revelation 14:7<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

6.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe that loving relationships should permeate every area of church life. Our relationships with God, spouse, family, church family, and those outside the family of God, should be motivated by the unconditional agape love of God:<\/p>\n

\n

Luke 10:25-37; John 13:34-35; Galatians 6:1-2; Romans 12:17-21<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

7<\/strong>. We believe in the spiritual growth of every believer, in fruitfulness toward the goal of Christ-likeness, and the numerical growth of the church as we reach the lost of our community through creative outreach:<\/p>\n

\n

John 15:1-8; Acts 2:41, 47; John 4:4; Galatians 4:19;
\nGalatians 5:22-23<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

8.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe in the value, ministry, giftedness and priesthood of every believer:<\/p>\n

\n

Luke 7:28; II Corinthians 5:17-20; Romans 12:6-8;
\nHebrews 10:23-35; I Peter 4:10; Revelation 1:6<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OUR VISION Grace Christian Church (GCC) is a place where people of diverse backgrounds can come together as an extended family to experience God\u2019s presence through worship, prayer, and insightful practical Bible teaching and preaching. GCC is dedicated to reaching the community with the gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as providing specified ministries of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3421,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-867","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracecchurch.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}