Our distinctives
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Grace Missions is driven by a passion to see Christ exalted
through all the earth and to see men living to the glory of God by submitting to
His lordship, that through this they might know the unspeakable blessings of enjoying
Him in this life and forever.
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We are committed to all of Scripture
as the only infallible and
entirely sufficient God-inspired revelation to men.
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We are committed to the doctrines of grace
as fundamental truths
that must undergird all Christian belief and practice. We believe salvation is a
gracious work of God from start to finish, bringing His people under the sound
of the gospel, opening their hearts to understand it, convicting them of their
sin through it, granting them faith to believe in it, and evoking the proper
response of repentance to it. We believe sanctification is the inevitable result
of genuine faith, whose author and finisher is Christ.
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We believe in the local church
as the God-appointed means by which
He oversees and carries on His work through the saints. Grace Missions is under
the oversight of local church elders, and the goal of our ministry is to establish
local churches that are self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating.
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We believe that for a ministry to enjoy the blessing of God,
love
for Him manifested by joyful obedience must be evident, together with genuine
compassion for the plight of men lost in sin.
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We believe that God's work done God's way will receive God's provision.
While we are eager to inform others of what He is doing in this ministry, we appeal only
to God for the funds needed to carry out the work.
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We are more reactive than proactive in Christian service.
That is, we prefer to respond to God's hand actively guiding through prayer and circumstances
in the decisions and ministries we must consider, rather than setting our own course
consistent with Scripture and then asking God after the fact to own it and bless it.
Note: For a more detailed account of our philosophy of ministry please click on the articles
in the right-hand column of this page.
Address: Grace Missions 723 South D Street Oxnard, California 93030