Who are we? Living Grace Fellowship is a Christian church – a gathering of those who believe in and have committed their lives to Jesus Christ. As you can see we meet in a home, so if you show up, you will be noticed. The advantage to this is a more personal experience where maturity and growth can be fostered. It is a place to know and be known by one another and our pastor and grow in God’s Word together. Our mission is two fold… To grow and mature Christians into the image of Jesus Christ. Equip them for […]
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Do James and Paul disagree?
This is a topic which has become near and dear to my heart, first as a seeker and lover of the truths of the scriptures and secondly as a pastor. I have met MANY believers who have nearly been shipwrecked in their faith or have fallen into serious error due to misunderstanding what Paul and James were actually saying. Some of this is due to “little-to-no” actual studying of the passages in question. Other times it is due to bringing to a study, preconceived ideas which blind us to what is actually being taught. Taken together with these two problems […]
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Acceptable and Pleasing
There is a growing misunderstanding today in Christian circles where God’s pleasure in us is being linked to His acceptance of us in Christ. These two are very different subjects. While everyone who has come to Christ in faith is 100% accepted in the Beloved, we are NOT always well pleasing to Him. Fortunately, this topic is very easy to understand and clarify from God’s word. Acceptable “Accepted” is term associated with relationship. Even in English, our notion of being accepted by God means that we are approved by Him. This approval finds its expression in a state of relationship […]
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Spiritual Gifts, Ministries & Callings
Gifts, Ministries & Callings…oh my! After establishing these fundamentals, Paul breaks down into three categories, what Christians often lump all together as “gifts”. I have highlighted the three terms with their Strong’s Concordance numbers so you can easily see that all three, are different words. You may already notice that the three words used in the King James version are NOT the same words I used as the heading of this segment of the article. That was on purpose! While nearly every Christian denomination is aware of the term “gifts” in one capacity or another (a.k.a. spiritual gifts, grace gifts, gifts […]
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God’s Grace and Spiritual Gifts
Much confusion surrounds this topic of gifts, ministries and callings, and much of that confusion could be greatly minimized by understanding the words scripture uses to describe them. So in this article, we mostly be touching on the meanings of these words and some of the words typical associated with them. The Grace of God – through Gifts of the Spirit Paul had a tremendous revelation of grace. God had visited him in dreams, visions and perhaps even by taking him to heaven itself in order to deposit a clear revelation of the grace of God through Jesus Christ. Paul […]
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