We exist to see God glorified by making Jesus known in the church, the city, and the world.

After a long life as “Grace Community Church”, Grace Church was replanted in 2011 with the aim of “rediscovering the gospel”. In partnership with the Acts29 network, Grace Church took on new life as a body of believers committed to understanding the importance of the good news of Jesus Christ as not only the catalyst for salvation but the central doctrine of the Scripture and the focal point of the Christian life. The church began to experience growth as we discovered the joy in Christ’s gospel. Some discovered Jesus for the first time, but many rediscovered the gospel that they thought they had needed to move on from.

After a few years of mobile church and meeting in schools in the greater Waco area, the pastors of Grace Church saw the need of a gospel-centered church in the heart of Waco. An old community bowling alley at 4610 Bosque was selected as the future home of Grace Church and renovations were completed in early 2016. Grace Church sits in the crosshairs of an area of significant economic and racial diversity, so a new goal was born: to make Jesus known to the church, and therefore the city of Waco and the world.

That mission of Grace Church still stands. We exist to see God glorified by making Jesus known in the church, the city, and the world. We recognize the importance of revelation, the idea that God has made himself known to us in the gospel which shows Jesus’ person and work. Our job description as those who have seen and believe in Jesus is to disperse that revelation wherever we go: to make Jesus known. Where the true Jesus is truly known, God is glorified in transforming hearts and lives and making dead people alive. Where the true Jesus is known, disciples of Jesus are made and strengthened and the mission of the church of God is fulfilled.

CORE VALUES

As a family who Makes Jesus Known, we are committed wholeheartedly to developing the following values among one another:

HISTORIC, BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY

Our goal as a congregation is not to be new and inventive, but to be rooted in the the deep tradition of the Christian faith revealed in God’s Word and passed down through the centuries through God’s church. We treasure the Scriptures as they reveal the glory of Triune God in the face of Jesus Christ; we worship through rhythms and patterns of worship that anchor us in Christian tradition and saturate us with God’s word; and we embrace the centrality of the gospel of God’s grace in Christ preached by the apostles, renewed by the Protestant Reformers, and carried forward by God’s faithful people.

Mutual Dependence

Our community is a community of need, where we humbly depend on God together in all of life. We aim to be marked by repentance and confession of sin and cultivate a culture where vanity and posturing are replaced by an eagerness to acknowledge our weakness and reliance on the gospel of God. In our worship, we strive for excellence but never hide our weakness; in our community, we willingly enter into our imperfection together, and in our everyday, we understand that our patient dependence on God is our strongest evangelistic tool in a proud and hurried world.

Drop-Everything Community

Following the “one-anothers” of the New Testament, we are growing into a community of love, unity, service, humility, hospitality, and truth—a community that is always ready to drop everything for the sake of bearing one another’s burdens. In order to build this community, we are committed to building uncomfortable and beautiful intergenerational and intercultural relationships that are centered on union with Christ, not on personal preference or comfort. To really experience the power of the gospel at Grace Church, you will need to enter into meaningful community with others through Community Group during the week.

Multiplying GOSPEL Witness

We grow outward, not upward. Jesus has commissioned us to make disciples of all nations, and we are committed to multiplication of Christ’s kingdom, not addition to ours. The message we are witness to is the gospel: the good news of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection that calls all people to turn from sin, receive new life in Christ, and join him on mission. Before building our own brand or expanding our influence, our Church values the hard work of planting churches who plant churches and send out one another as missionaries to renew the world and make disciples both in Waco and to the ends of the earth.