| Welcome to Grace Church
Joondalup Grace Church is a Christian
community located in the heart of the satellite
City of Joondalup 25 kilometres (15.5 miles)
north of Perth in Western Australia.
We are Anglican Christians in communion
with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Specifically,
we belong to the Diocese of Perth within the
Anglican Church of Australia.
Does this mean that we high church or low
church or broad church or what?
We identify ourselves by five markers –
• We are Catholic
• We are Evangelical
• We are Inclusive
• We are Liturgical
• We are Missionary
CATHOLIC means we are not a sect. We
belong to the Body of Christ, the one Church of
Jesus Christ. We rejoice in the fullness of
Christian faith and culture while looking to
God’s future. Valuing the riches of the past, we
long for all that is yet to be. Only God is
catholic! The Catholic Church hasn’t really
happened yet!!
EVANGELICAL means committed to the evangel
– the gospel or good new of God in Jesus Christ.
Jesus of Nazareth– a human being, born in
Bethlehem, living, teaching, healing in 1st
century Palestine, dying in Jerusalem and rising
to new life – is the Word of God speaking with
us in love, redeeming the whole created
universe.
INCLUSIVE means a place around the Lord’s
table for everyone. Every human division is
bridged in Christ’s reconciling love. Barriers
of race, colour, gender, language, sexuality and
religion are overcome. All we have in common is
Christ, and Christ is all in all.
LITURGICAL means worshipping the Lord in
the beauty of holiness. We value to Anglican
tradition of common prayer, the balanced pattern
of word and sacrament. Matter matters.
Incarnation is not one-off; God is never
disembodied. The Bible is a vessel for the
living Word. So is water and bread and wine and
oil and light. So is everything and everyone.
MISSIONARY means singing our love-song to
Jesus without telling dirty stories about anyone
else. We want to live and work as Christ lived
and worked: patiently, gently, firmly, tenderly
- clear-eyed about the truth made known to us,
while never trampling other people’s dreams.
Clearly, we are a work in progress -
explorers and pilgrims, forgiven sinners,
recovering human beings. Why not join the
adventure? Sign up to receive sermons and other
teaching. Better still, come and worship with
us. We may not have all the answers, but we love
living the questions. You are warmly welcome
here.
David
Parish Priest
Anglican Board of
Mission Haiti Appeal
We
have sent a cheque for
$1000 to the ABM Haiti
Appeal.
Ash Wednesday: First Day of Lent
The forty-day Christian fast in preparation for
Easter begins on Ash Wednesday, 17 February
2010, when the Eucharist is celebrated at 7pm,
with the ancient ceremony of the Blessing and
Imposition of Ashes. These ashes are made by
burning last year’s palm crosses, so please
remember to bring your 2009 palm cross for
consigning to the flames on Sunday 14 February.
The Font is also drained of its living water on
this Sunday, for baptism is next celebrated at
the Great Vigil of Easter.
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