Grace & Peace Fellowship Bible Church
Our Convictions

What We Believe

Distinctives

How We Worship

Expository Preaching

We preach through books of the Bible verse by verse, letting the text set the agenda. The point of the passage is the point of the sermon.

Regulative Worship

We worship God only in the ways He has commanded in His Word — the reading and preaching of Scripture, prayer, singing, and the ordinances.

Weekly Communion

Each Lord's Day we come to the Table together, remembering the death of Christ until He comes.

Rich Hymnody

We sing hymns full of truth — songs that teach, that carry doctrine into the heart, and that generations can sing together.

Family-Integrated Worship

Our children worship with us. Sunday School equips them at 9:00; at 10:30 the whole family sits under the Word together.

Statement of Faith

What We Confess

  1. We believe that the sacred scriptures, in their fullness of canonicity, are the only inerrant Word of God. It is our only ultimate and infallible authority for faith and practice.
  2. We believe that there is one being of God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is omnipotent, being all-powerful. He is omnipresent, being present throughout all Creation but not limited by it. He is omniscient, meaning nothing is hidden from His sight. In all things, He is limited by nothing other than His own nature and character as He desires and wills. We believe the God we worship is thrice Holy, and all His attributes are purely expressed from His being as being good and righteous. He is the Creator of the heavens and earth, and everything in them, in the space of six ordinary days, and all very good. He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Potentate of everything that has been made. He is Sovereign over all and none compare to Him.
  3. We believe in the true deity and full/true humanity of Christ Jesus our Lord, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power and glory. He is the Judge of the dead and the living.
  4. We believe in the full deity of the Holy Spirit, acknowledging Him together with the Father and the Son in the works of creation and redemption. We believe He is the third Holy person of the Trinity.
  5. We believe that because of Adam’s sin, all mankind is in rebellion against God as he is our Federal head. For the salvation of such lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary.
  6. We believe that salvation is only by grace through faith alone and that faith without works is dead.
  7. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  8. We believe in the present ongoing ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and prove the work of salvation through pursuing Christ daily.
  9. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and lost: those who are saved to the resurrection of life and those who are lost to the resurrection of damnation.

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Historic Creeds

With the Church of All Ages

We confess nothing novel. These are the words the church has said together for eighteen centuries, and we say them too.

The Apostles’ Creed 2nd century

I believe in God the Father Almighty; Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the virgin, Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hades. On the third day He rose again, ascended into Heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father; from thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Nicene Creed of Constantinople 381 AD

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from Heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the virgin, Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into Heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge both the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, and Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who, with the Father and the Son, together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the Prophets. And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church; acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16
God

Holy Creator and Judge

God made all things — including you — for His glory. He is perfectly holy and righteous, and every person will one day stand before Him.

“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” Isaiah 6:3
Man

Sinners Before a Holy God

Every one of us has broken God's law — in what we've done, said, and loved. Sin separates us from God, and its wage is death.

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23
Christ

The Savior Who Died and Rose

God sent His Son. Jesus lived the perfect life we could not live, died on the cross bearing the punishment sinners deserve, and rose bodily from the grave.

“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21
Response

Repent and Believe

God commands all people everywhere to repent — to turn from sin — and to trust in Jesus Christ alone. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.” Acts 16:31
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