Welcome to Grace!
“Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised!”
Whether you are planning a vacation to our beautiful mountain community, live here full or part-time, or are just visiting the site – please know that a warm welcome, friendly people and the love of Jesus will always await you at Grace Community Church.
We are a non-denominational church and as well as our regular services, we offer Women’s Bible studies, Men’s activities, Youth meetings and a variety of seasonal events and outreach opportunities. A nursery and Children’s Church are available on Sundays as well as activities on Wednesdays.
You’re invited to listen to a sermon, be inspired by a devotional reading or send us your prayer requests through this site. It is our great joy to partner with the Lord in seeing people encouraged and uplifted.
We hope you’ll visit our site often, but we hope to see you in person soon!
Pastors Steve & Joyce Doerter
We made the Local News! (Crossroads Chronicle)
Click Here to Read Article
Click on photos for more photos
The basic foundation of the Christian faith is our inability to save ourselves. To become a Christian, one needs to admit their failure and acknowledge their need for a Savior. In this sermon we look at one of the spiritual meanings of Jesus’ offensive statement, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” He went on to say, “The words I speak to you are spirit and they are life.” Abiding in Christ and living in dependency on Him is how we “feed on Him”.
Paul makes it clear that as Christians, we have died with Christ, and tells us to count it as done. It is our death in Christ that allows us to live in Christ. Because we can now live by faith in the Son of God, we can say with Paul, “When I sin, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me.” Though we admit our sin, we no longer have identity with it. Paul handled the grace of God in the same fashion when speaking of his labor to the other apostles, “Yet not I but the grace of God which is with me.” He was consistent with his declaration that, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”
The scriptures declare that as children of God He has given us the victory! We are now "More than conquerors"! When you think of a conqueror, you don't readily see a picture of a victim in your mind. Though most of us have been legitimate victims at one time or another, we should never allow this to become our identity! The Book of Romans tells us, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" And if God is FOR us, though our circumstances may look unconquerable, we are able to stand firm by resisting the "victim" mentality, rejecting the lies of the "accuser" (the devil), and believing the truth that nothing can seperate us from His love!
Upon learning that we are “children of God”, it is important to take the next step in realizing there are responsibilities that come with that privilege. The scripture declares in the Book of Philippians that, “it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure”. God graciously works everything in us to please Him – it then becomes our responsibility to work it out in what we do and how we live. Our lives are a living, breathing letter of the work of Christ and are “read” by all men. Therefore, it’s important that we learn to trust God on a daily basis to help us walk worthy of our calling as His children. Our light will then shine for all the world to see.
Our heavenly Father’s plan for His children is to see us grow in our identity in Christ and mature in Him so that our behavior will reflect our relationship with God, our Abba or Daddy. The scriptures teach that we have the treasure of Jesus Christ in earthen vessels. God knows when we as “vessels” are weak and loves us in spite of our sinful behavior. If we have been born of God, we have been born into His family. Our identity is no longer “a sinner saved by grace”, but we have now become saints who sin at times. As one person said, “Our bad times don’t have to define who we are.” Amen! And remember...though we aren’t yet what we are going to be, we can be grateful to God that we are not what we were!