Grace Community is a non-denominational church. We are not opposed to denominations but we feel more comfortable with a format which can accommodate more individuals who, although Christians, do not necessarily agree on all the finer points of doctrine.
Denominations exist because of distinctives (or differences) in doctrine. We believe doctrine is of tremendous importance. We also believe every Christian should be committed to membership in a local church. We have tried to structure our church in such a way that membership and fellowship are based on the most basic essentials of the historic Christian Faith. This is not to say that other areas of doctrine are unimportant, but that disagreement in such areas need not exclude anyone from our church fellowship.
At Grace Community, we have adopted as our philosophy the general sentiment expressed by Chrysostom in the following statement: In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, charity. In all things, Jesus Christ.
On behalf of our World Trip team, I would like to thank you for what your website has done for our trip. With daily photo albums of our progress on our short term missions trip to the Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar and Romania, we were able to keep everyone back home informed of our daily progress. It has been truly a blessing for everyone! Thank you for making the blog pages and photo albums available for use! We have as of this writing 19,500 hits on our blog pages and almost 16,000 hits on our albums. These hits are from all over the world! We would not have been nearly as effective in communicating with those back home without you! Thanks again!