Gospel of Grace Church

 ...a Reformed church bringing the gospel to Springfield, MO
 

Sunday Morning:

  Coffee & Fellowship: 10:00

  Sunday School: 10:20

  Morning Worship: 11:30

Wednesday Evening:

  Prayer Meeting: 6:30

 

 

 

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. 

And this is not your own doing;

it is the gift of God, not a result of works,

so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

 

Learning

You are invited to join us at 10:00 on Sunday mornings for coffee and a time of chatting with each other before our class starts at 10:20. 

John 16:13, “When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth.” 

Jesus made this promise initially to His disciples, but its substance reverberates throughout history from Pentecost until Jesus’ 2nd Coming.  Church history, then, is the record of the Holy Spirit’s work of leading and guiding Jesus’ church into all truth. 

In order to better understand and appreciate the work of the Holy Spirit throughout history, we are studying various influential historical figures, and especially each figure’s contribution to the church’s understanding of the Bible, the Trinity, the gospel, and Christian living.  At the end of our brief tour of these influential figures, we plan to familiarize ourselves with the Westminster Assembly of divines which met in London, England in the 1640’s and produced the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Westminster Larger Catechism, and the Westminster Shorter Catechism.  Then we will study the Westminster Shorter Catechism, with special attention given to examining its claims about what the Bible teaches.   

Here is the schedule, beginning on May 16 with Polycarp, and following with the next figure roughly each week:

  • Polycarp (A.D. 69-155)
  • Athanasius (A.D. 293-373)
  • Augustine (A.D. 354-430)
  • Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
  • Martin Luther (1483-1546)
  • Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)
  • John Calvin (1509-1564)
  • John Knox (1510-1572)
  • Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
  • George Whitfield (1714-1770)
  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
  • Westminster Assembly of Divines (1640’s)
  • Westminster Shorter Catechism (Fall of 2010 through Spring of 2011)

There are also Sunday School classes available for young children, although children are always welcome to remain with their parents.