Community
In the gospel, we are saved by Christ, to His NEW COMMUNITY, for His mission.
This new family, the Spirit-created family of God, becomes our primary identity. Through the gospel we are born again into this new community - the Church. The gospel doesn’t just save individuals; the gospel creates a new community. Through Jesus, we are given a new identity as God’s people, out of which we now live our lives. God's new community is the context for our new life together in Christ and our mission together to the lost. Community is essential for true ongoing gospel transformation and proclamation.
Sin destroyed community. The Gospel restores it. The Church is the family of God, where believers live and unbelievers are invited in, to experience life under the rule and reign of King Jesus. We believe that not only does the gospel transfer us into a new community, and not only are we transformd in that community, but the gospel is most fully transmitted through that new community living together and demonstrating the goodness of living under the reign of King Jesus.
At GCC we experience the daily blessings of this new family in our GOSPEL COMMUNITIES.
(Gen. 1:26; John 13:35; Acts 2:42-47; Rom. 12:10)
