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Hello, Welcome to Grace Chapel

For thouse that don’t know I am Pastor Gabe Landis, and I am so excited to have each of you here today.

We at Grace strive to serve our community by building relationships, reaching the lost Disciple new believers and Encourage others in the Love of God.

We believe to do this there are 3 areas we need to Focuse

Grow

Connect

and community

We Gorw in God, grow in our faith

WE connect with one another, building a community here to reach the community out there

and we commit to being involved in to our community.

We feel by focesing on grow, connect, and community, we will become the church God has called us to be.

Homecomming.

Today we celabrate a anaverserty of our beginning. Homecoming is a celebration of another year of Ministry, and I am so glad that you are here.

I want to thank Mrs Sandy Weeks and her team for decreating for homecoming. It is absalutly beautiful. They did a great job

As a part of our celebration, everyone is invited today right after service to walk across our parking lot to our FLC for a Lunch. We have more than enough food so we need everyone here to go there and enjoy a free lunch. IT better then the sizzling and cheeper. Amen.

A few announcements that we are wanting to let you know.

New Belivers Group starting next Sunday at 2.

Love thy neighbor sep 21 11-1 Serving be there at 10

Wednesday night service we are studying the Holy Spirit starting at 7

Tuesday night Prayer team meets at 7:00

we are hearing a lot of back to’s today.

Back to School

Back to fall

Back to football

Will Today is our Back to church day. and today I want us to look at what it means for us as a church to get back to THE church that God has called us to be.

We are all called, we are all given a purpose by God. Scripture tells us that we ALl created

No matter what we think Keeps us away from God, God reaches past that all and offers us the Gospel,

Gospel is

forgiveness

Hope

Joy

and love

Paul Writes

Ephesians 2:11–22 (ESV)

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

WE were all separated from God by our sins

With Out God, WE have not Hope

13 But now

Any Time you see a But in scripture, Pay attention .......

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

This is the true natrue of the Gospel, That we were once away from God, and through Jesus, We have been brought back to God.

Jesus give us connection to God again.

14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

Jesus

unified us to God

Broke down wall of separation

Abolished the Law of ordinances (Ceremonial law to seperat Jews and Greeks)

Replacing ordinance with His Righteousness and Peace

Reconciled us all God God

17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Jesus Came to Preach Peace and to give us access to Spirit of god

we call that the Holy spirit

we are doing a study now about the holy spirit.

19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

No long strangers but citizens

Built on the teachings of the apostles ( we call scriptures)

Being Joined Together into the Church

Being the dwelling place of God.

This is what a Church going back to the basics is about, ITS TIME TO GO BACK TO THIS CHURCH

There are three things that God has called us to do to be the church that He wants us to be.

Grow (Grow in God / Grow in Faith)

Colossians 3:16–17 (ESV)

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Connect (Connect with one another)

Hebrews 10:24–25 (ESV)

24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Community (Be active in our community)

Philippians 2:1–11 (ESV)

1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,