Grace Fellowship Church - Kingsport

God has one plan to reach the nations with His message of salvation: discipleship! Every disciple has a role to play in carrying the gospel to our neighbors and to the nations. Discover how the blessings of God to the people of God are meant to be part of His plan to make Himself known in all the earth.

Going to the nations is not just a cold, calculated task on our Christian to-do list; it’s a relational task we accept compelled by the love of Jesus. God is using all of history to bring glory to Himself- now He chooses to use us to carry his message of reconciliation to the world.

God has a global plan of salvation, which is being accomplished for His great Name and glory. In this message we look back to see God’s heart for the nations from the beginning, but we look forward to see that His global goal of salvation for the nations will be carried out. Every disciple of Jesus is made for world

When facing persecution, the Lord met the disciples at their point of need. In God’s providence, persecution is catalytic, not catastrophic, in the life of the early Church and in our lives today.

We spend so much time "doing" Christianity and often fail to understand why we do what we do. The beauty of God is that He doesn't want us to simply follow His rules, He wants to have a real, authentic relationship with us. He wants to be involved in every part fo our lives...good or bad, big or small. We are no longer slaves to sin or a code of ethics, but rather adopted children into His wonderful family! And the amazing truth that an all powerful God wants to have a relationship with us compels us to do the things that we do!

The conclusion to Joseph’s story reveals a truth we all need to understand in our lives- especially in our trials: God is good! Joseph has gained a perspective on the events of his life that shows the power and goodness of God and he is attempting to help his family learn that same lesson.

What do you do when your past catches up to you? Joseph is once again brought face to face with his brothers and he tests them to see if they are still cruel, hate-filled men or if God has changed their character. Through a series of trials the brothers become aware that their past actions have present consequences. But through it all God is working to bring about reconciliation and to restore a broken family.

Joseph finds himself once again in jail, however, God doesn't allow him to go through this trial to punish him, but to prepare him for a greater future. Joseph gets an education in Egyptian culture and politics- but he gets it from Prison University! Joseph is learning, as we must all learn, that this isn't about him- it's all about God.

Joseph is a man living between his dreams and reality. Even in the darkest moments of his life God is with him. It can be difficult to see God in our darkest moments, but He has promised to be with us always. In week two of the series we see how God is developing character in Joseph that will allow him to rule in the near future.

In the first week of our new series on the life of Joseph we see how God can take a broken, dysfunctional situation and lay the groundwork for the future salvation of His people.

Despite our greatest efforts, there is nothing we can do or say that can ever be enough to earn God's favor. But God, even when we were dead in our sin and had nothing to offer, chose to recklessly pursue us in perfect love and beautiful grace.

The resurrection of Jesus is the most important event in history! But did it really happen, or was it all a prank? You've heard the story before, but it's time to look again- because everything hinges on this! Thanks for watching our Easter worship service!

On what we now call Palm Sunday, Jesus came to Jerusalem with purpose- to seek and save the lost. As his followers we have the same purpose. This message looks at the strategy of GFC to help bring people who are far from God near to Him.

The final message in the Let Us Pray series looks at the expectation of a disciple to pray and includes a panel discussion from people within the GFC faith family.

Intercessory prayer is a form of spiritual warfare where we stand in the gap for one another. Every Christian has more power through prayer than we know- especially because of the role of intercessory prayer.

Prayer is a form of warfare against temptations we face daily. We have an adversary who wants to destroy us. Most of us are not trained in hand to hand combat, but all Christians need to know how to pray as a form of combat against temptation.

Jesus uses the language of financial debt to bring us to the understanding of the crippling weight of our sin debt. He tells us we can ask the Father to forgive that debt and know it's already been paid for, which frees us to forgive others.

Through the model prayer we learn nothing is too small to pray about. Jesus let's us pray for small, daily needs, Big, God centered things, and audacious requests.

Pastor Joel shows us what it means to pray God centered prayers that are aligned with His will rather than our own.

Joel Owen speaks about the importance of prayer in the life of the believer.