This week, Justin and Scott discuss the importance of our union with Christ and how it fuels our joy and strength.
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Grace Community Church is committed to building spiritually healthy people for ministry in the world. We are a disciple-making church with God-centered worship and biblical teaching, mutual encouragement toward spiritual growth, and engagement with the world through evangelism, missions, and service.
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Sep 7, 2020
Sep 7, 2020
39 min
The book of Romans has laid before us God’s gracious plan of salvation. Now, in the sixth chapter, we read the first direct commands. We are called to engage our minds and use our bodies to live in obedience to God. In our minds we consider to be true the spiritual realities of being dead to sin and alive to God. Then, we use our bodies in ways that reflect those realities in everyday activity. The mind and body of the Christian is where union with Christ is lived. This is practical holiness.
Aug 30, 2020
Aug 30, 2020
37 min
As soon as Paul says that God’s grace abounds over sin, the question about sin and the Christian arises. Shall we, can we, continue in sin in light of God’s saving grace? This passage addresses sin by showing us how God’s grace results in the death of our old self that was in sin, how we are no longer under condemnation of death for our sin, and how we live free from sin’s dominance over our minds and bodies. God has freed us from sin, so let us live bound to him.
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
21 min
Scott, Justin, Jason, and Josh discuss the plans for continuing discipleship this fall.
Aug 25, 2020
Aug 23, 2020
Aug 23, 2020
35 min
By the grace of God a new reality defines our lives which we call union with Christ. Union with Christ is rooted in his death and resurrection, in which God considers us to be included. Union with Christ determines the new way we relate to God in our bodies. The result of union with Christ is holiness (a life resembling Christ), and eternal life (a life of fellowship with God forever). Union with Christ is the great truth all Christians should understand, remember daily, and draw from for strength to live freely for the glory of God.
Aug 18, 2020
Aug 18, 2020
15 min
How can Romans 5 help us as with interact with those in our world? Justin and Scott discuss how a Biblical view of humanity gives us perspective as we live out the gospel among others.
Aug 16, 2020
Aug 16, 2020
38 min
How should we view humanity? How did sin come into the world? Why did death spread to all people? And, most importantly, what is our hope of passing from death to life? In this compact section of Romans, so many questions related to the human condition and to eternal life are answered. The call from this passage is to turn to Christ and to begin living the new life that is in him.
Aug 11, 2020
Aug 11, 2020
17 min
This week, Justin and Scott look back at the past five weeks in Romans 5:1-11 and discuss how this passage helps shape our perspective and gives us hope.
Aug 9, 2020
Aug 9, 2020
37 min
Since God has justified us and reconciled us to himself through the death of Christ, how much more will he save us by the life of Christ for the glory to come! As we remember salvation that awaits us, we gain a vision of the future that provides hope, an explanation of why we don’t have perfection now that prevents discouragement, the motivation to press on knowing we will someday be like Christ, and greater joy in God with whom we have peace. Let’s live today in light of The Day.
Aug 3, 2020
Aug 3, 2020
36 min
We have all been disappointed. Why should it be any different when it comes to believing the gospel? If we put our faith in Christ and begin to hope in him, aren’t we at risk of being let down? There are two realities of the gospel that assure us that we will not be disappointed if we hope in God. First, the Holy Spirit is given to us, and he pours God’s love into our hearts. Second, Christ died for us, showing us God’s love for us. To know the love of God in the gift of the Spirit and in the death of Christ gives us hope of the glory of God.