Grace Abounding

This Sunday we had many tears as our Leadership Team and I lay hands on one of our members, Josh Scheiderer, to consecrate him for a pastoral ministry. He and his family moved this weekend to Mentor, Ohio, so he may serve as senior pastor of Bible Community Church. Grace Church first met for Sunday worship in their home in the winter of 2007.

We are delighted that God has granted our small church family the privilege of sending out a family into another part of God’s vineyard. Josh, Christy, and their 3 children have taught us so much about loving each other and laughing a lot! We are confident that the Spirit is blessing Bible Community with their presence, and vis-a-vis.

I’m often asked why we named our church family Grace Church of Alexandria. We’re simply amazed at the extent of God’s favor, the mountain of gifts, he pours on those who follow Jesus Christ.

We’re acutely aware how desperately rebellious each of us is. Every Lord’s day our corporate worship rehearses that without God’s dramatic intervention, we’d be facing his disfavor, his holy and hot wrath.

But God took the initiative to add us to his family, we who formerly opposed God and tried to sit on the throne of our lives that he deserves. Then he treats us with all the love, favor, and delight that he bestows on his precious Son! His love is so vast that it takes the Spirit’s supernatural work to help us begin grasping the extent of his love (Ephesians 3:16-18).

God’s grace is immeasurable. Grace is God’s love to the unlovely, indeed, the unlovable. We’re called Grace Church to remind us our purpose when we wake up each morning – to praise his glorious grace (Ephesians 1:, 6, 12, 14).