Our church vision:
To develop a church community where
dynamic life-changing transformation is
experienced through the truth of God’s
word, the grace available through Christ
Jesus and the power of the Holy
Spirit!
Abundant
Grace
has an interactive service with a
congregational involvement format:
1. We encourage open
worship through the active participation of
all church members in worship services. We
believe audible, uninhibited public worship
is an appropriate expression of our joy in
the Lord and encourages people to enjoy a
rich and intimate experience of God.
2. We advocate courteous and
respectful open sharing by all members of
the congregation during the service. (We
believe traditional services, in which all
communication is pre-planned and
centralized at the pulpit, deters
believers from sharing fully in each
other's lives and in the life of the
congregation)
3. We are
committed to supporting opportunities
for development of individual ministry
so that each member of the congregation
is able to participate in the ministry
he or she is called to
whether within the church or
outside of it.
4.
We believe that as we allow and encourage
active lay-ministry participation in the
services and other activities the Holy
Spirit will produce the individual
spiritual growth necessary in Christians
to minister to others in their daily
lives.
5. Pastors have
a significant role in the church, and we
strongly support them in the authority of
their call from God to shepherd His
people. We believe their function should
be, primarily,
to equip the
saints for the work of ministry.
We are a
Psalm 107 Church
We will give thanks
to the LORD for his unfailing love
and his wonderful
deeds for men,
for he satisfies the
thirsty
and fills the hungry
with good things.
We will sacrifice
thank offerings
and tell of his works with songs of joy...
...and we will
exalt him in the assembly of the people
and praise him in the council of the elders.
(Derived
from Psalm 107)
Our Beliefs:
We
believe in one eternal God who exists as
three separate persons; the Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit.
We believe the bible to be the inspired word
of God, infallible and authoritative.
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God who came to earth, died for our sins,
and rose again. Through His death on the
cross and resurrection from the dead, we are
now free from the curse of sin and
death.
We believe it is essential for man to repent
of his sin and by faith receive God’s grace
through the finished work of Christ for the
salvation of his soul.
We
believe
that by this same grace, the Holy Spirit
continues to sanctify our soul, making
righteous living possible as we are
increasingly conformed to the image of
Christ, who is our model for holy
living.
For
more on our beliefs, click here: Christian
doctrine
page
Our
Worship:
Our
praise
and worship songs are a mix of
contemporary songs and songs created
as the Spirit gives us illumination
at the moment. There
will
not always be a prepared sermon; our
sermon may be the Lord speaking
through us individually and
corporately as we worship Him.
In
addition to
praising and worshipping the Lord by
singing prearranged songs - we look
to the Holy Spirit for the
spontaneous form of praise and
worship that God desires for us to
express, whether it be in word,
instrument, song, or other
presentation.
Our
desire is to follow the momentary
leading of the Holy Spirit in worship,
that we might, most effectively and
directly, respond to the immediate
will of God for this body of believers
and His purpose through us.
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