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 are 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 our 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