Grace Fellowship Church
Avon, Indiana
Our vision is to help as many people as possible receive and display the resurrection life and power of Jesus Christ through total dependence on God.
BenefitsAbout Grace Fellowship Church
Doctrinal Statement and Mission Statement
DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
The Bible
We believe that God has revealed Himself and His special message to
man in the Bible. To do this, we believe that God superintended the
writings of the books of the Bible so that all of its ideas and words
are authoritative and without error. The Bible is, therefore, the Word
of God, and we find in it our ultimate authority for belief and behavior.
God
We believe that there is only one true God who has always existed in three
Persons whom the Bible names the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
All of creation originated, is sustained, and will culminate in the purposes
of the Father. According to the Father's will, the Son entered human existence
by the virgin birth. He lived a sinless life and died in the place of each person
and as a payment for the sins of all humans. He was buried and rose again
in victory over death. We believe that this Jesus will come again to earth
in the same physically real body that ascended into heaven. The Holy Spirit
convicts people of sin, makes alive spiritually those who believe, and
lives within all Christians in order to empower their lives.
Salvation
We believe that all humans are born sinners and separated from the life
of God. They can be saved only by God's grace through faith in the sacrifice
which the Son made by the shedding of His blood on the cross. This salvation
provides eternal life to the believer: a life that begins now and extends
beyond death forever. Therefore, we believe in the resurrection of the
dead. Believers will be resurrected to endless life, but unbelievers
will be resurrected to endless punishment.
The Church
We believe that the church is the earthly body of the Lord Jesus Christ
for which He will return at any time. It is made up of all whom He has
called up and redeemed. The Lord Jesus makes Himself known through the
Holy Spirit who produces the life of Christlike holiness in each Christian
and the whole church. We believe that the Lord Jesus commands every
Christian to be baptized as an outward expression of personal faith
in Him and to partake regularly in the Lord's Supper.
MISSION STATEMENT
Grace Fellowship Church exists for the purpose of glorifying God in
following the directives of the New Testament through the power of the
Holy Spirit
by expounding the Scripture
- by following the Scripture in structuring the church
- by discipling believers into maturity as they allow Christ to live His life through them
- by developing shepherding elders
- by building up one another in Christ
- by equiping and encouraging believers to share Christ through life and words
- in the sphere of the home, community, and throughout
the world.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT
The Sunday School of Grace Fellowship Church exists to supplement parental
training in the home. The biblical mandate is, "Fathers, do not
exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and
instruction of the Lord." (Ephesians 6:4)
We desire to help parents in this regard by exposing their children
to other Christian adults who:
Model the love of God in all their relationships;
Communicate the gospel clearly;
Communicate basic Christian values;
Communicate basic biblical content in all doctrinal areas;
Communicate basic Christian skills such as
prayer
witnessing
Bible study
resulting in a genuine hunger for God in every area of life.
