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Grace City is a church that is committed to doing very hard things In really tough places so God gets all the glory. Grace City Church is a life-giving faith community devoted to Jesus through absolute obedience to everything He commanded. We strive to live extra-ordinary lives of prayer, discipleship, disciple-making, worship, the Word of God, evangelism, and love.

We want to be a house of prayer for all nations that exhales disciples who will take the gospel all over the world or die trying. In June of 2012 we moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to launch Grace City Church. Come and check out what God is doing. Yes, it will change your life! For information about locations and times contact us at info@gracecityvegas.com


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To cooperate with God in starting a spiritual fire that will penetrate the spiritual darkness and melt the ice over Las Vegas creating a downpour of God’s mercy and grace releasing a flood of blessing and disciples from Las Vegas and UNLV that flows all over the world.

We are all about the GRACE of Jesus Christ.

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We believe that the Holy Scriptures are the inerrant, infallible, verbally and plenarily inspired, authoritative Word of God bearing an authority superior to that of the Church, or its creeds, councils, or declarations.

The Holy Scriptures in their entirety, down to the very words of the original autographs, were given by divine inspiration. Those sixty-six books, thirty-nine in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament, have their place in the Bible on the basis of their inspiration and were recognized and submitted to as inspired and canonical by the Church and stand as our final standard for faith and practice.

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  • The DNA of World-Changing Church Planters

    Author: vegas Comments: 0 Date: 19 May 2013
    This past week, I had the privilege of spending 6-7 hours a day training forty potential church planters at the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. These future world-changers represent four countries and hope to plant churches and church planting movements in at least nine countries around the world.

    We all have the DNA of Champions

    When we are born again, we get a new DNA. God calls it a divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). In Christ, we are more than conquerors (Rom. 8:37) Jesus died to give all of us the DNA of world-changers and history-makers. “Christ in us” gives us the potential to be walking revivals wherever we go. If our new churches are not changing history, could it be that the planters are not fully living out their God-given DNA?

    ACTS

    The primary textbook for our course is the New Testament book of Acts. Acts is the story of the birth of the first church in the history of planet earth. It is the exhilarating tale of the church on fire; the church that God had in mind. It is the account of a group of imperfect people turning the world upside down.
    Acts describes the church as it should be: an unstoppable force created to change the world. It is the story of the church as a tiny acorn becoming a mighty oak and the church as a spiritual oasis in the desert wasteland of moral bankruptcy and cultural relativism.From one church, Christianity spread all over the earth. By the end of the first century, the first church in history grew from people gathered to pray to one million people globally! Think of that, from 120 to 1 million in seventy years. They made such a difference that their critics and persecutors claimed that they had “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6)! Today, too many churches are merely sustaining and maintaining. They are retreating instead of advancing the gospel through their city and around the world. What if an army of disciples decided to model their lives after the book of Acts and gave their lives to advance the Kingdom of God to birth church planting movements? No doubt we would change the world.

    THE DNA OF THE PLANTERS WILL BECOME THE DNA OF THE CHURCH PLANT

    The lived out DNA of the church planter will become the DNA of the church. If church planters are living out their DNA as world-changers, the churches they plant will change the world. This is what happened in the book of Acts.Be encouraged, the characteristics of the successful planters in the book of Acts are more about character traits and habits than about personality type, academic achievement, or spiritual gifts.  The characteristics of the successful planters in the book of Acts serve as templates for evaluation for aspiring world-changers.

    Critical Characteristics of world-changing Church Planters

    1.    They Were people of prayer (Acts 1:13-14; 3:1;4: 25-31;6:4).

    Early church leaders prayed three times daily and fasted two days a week. They prayed until they were endued with power from on high. They build a prayer culture in their churches and lived in an atmosphere of revival and the super-natural. I am convinced that if we want the impact they had, we need to do what they did: become people actively reliant on the Lord in prayer.

    2.    They were intentional evangelists (Acts 2:14-40; 3:17-20; 4:31; 8:40; 11:19; 13:5,32-39;14:1,15,21; 17:1-4).

    Wherever they went they shared the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus and lived the gospel of the kingdom of God. They shared the gospel to large crowds and individuals. On top of that, they contagiously trained their people to share the gospel (Acts 8:1, 4) so they were capable of taking the gospel to the world and starting world-changing churches (Acts 11:19)!

    3.    They discipled people in the Word (Acts 2:41; 11:26; 18:11; 20:8-10).

    They were not only prayer warriors and evangelists, they were disciple-makers. They poured the words of Jesus (Matthew 28:20) into those who came to know Christ. They helped their converts bring their lives under the discipline of the Word of God.

    4. They WERE risk-takers (Acts 15:25-26).

    It is impossible to please God without faith and there is no faith without risk. Barnabas and Paul were described as men who risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. These men knew how to hear from God and were committed to obeying God’s commands no matter what. It is never convenient, easy, or comfortable to plant a church. It is never the safe, secure thing to do. But it must be done if we hope to change the world.

    5. They refused to quit (Acts 4:18-29).

    Church planting is not for babies, cowards, or the faint of heart. It is incredibly hard work. It is spiritually exhausting. The enemy attacks us. People disappoint us. Seemingly nothing comes easy. But we can’t quit.No matter how difficult it got, the first century world-changers would not quit. Even when threatened, they refused to back-up or back-off preaching Jesus. Instead of asking for a lessening of persecution they asked for an increase of boldness!

    6. They sacrificed for the cause (Acts 4:36-37; 1 Corinthians 9:11-18).

    Church planting is costly. It costs time, energy and money. It takes security and safety. But for world-changing church planters, the ministry was not a career but a calling. None of them got rich as church planters. Paul and other church planters were bi-vocational by working outside jobs or were supported fulltime as missionaries.

    If we want what they had – a different world- we must do what they did: pray, evangelize, train, take risks, refuse to quit, and sacrifice.

    One day, it will be worth it!

  • Militant Mercy: William Booth & the Salvation Army

    Author: vegas Comments: 0 Date: 13 May 2013

    In the late 1800s in the squalor in the ghettoes of east London, William Booth (1829 –1912) literally raised an army, a “salvation army” of spiritual soldiers. He was a man of immense compassion and courage. He and his followers ministered to the material needs of the poor masses of London and made disciples. His main converts were alcoholics, morphine addicts, prostitutes and other “undesirables” unwelcome into polite Christian society.
     

    Evangelism and Social Justice

    The primary methods used by Booth were street preaching, personal evangelism and practical philanthropy. He preached wherever people would listen including salons, stables, theatre stages, and circus tents. But his specialty was open air meetings and street corners.Unlike anyone since Jesus, William Booth combined evangelism and social justice. He started soup kitchens to feed the poor and opened shelters for the homeless. He developed job training for immigrants. He wrote a bestselling book on how to combat poverty by reform (Darkest England and the Way Out).

    Passion for Souls, Compassion for the Lost and the Least

    What fueled this mighty mercy movement of justice, evangelism, and discipleship? It was Booth’s flaming passion for winning the lost. In a campaign to see 100,000 souls won to Christ, Booth pleaded with his troops, “Go for souls. Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.” When his eldest son, Bramwell, was only 13 years old, Booth took him along as he went to preach in a bar late on a Sunday evening. Pointing at the huge crowd, William told his son, “These are the people I want you to live and labor for.”

    Courageous Warriors

    I love Booth’s fiery passion and militant mindset to cooperate with Jesus in building a church that would kick in the gates of hell. He said,
    “We are not sent to minister to a congregation and be content if we keep things going. We are sent to make war and to stop short of nothing but the subjugation of the world to the sway of the Lord Jesus.“
    After a few years, his “Hallelujah Army” as they were being called because of their aggressive, courageous approach and military motif, had ten fulltime workers. By 1878 they had grown to 42 fulltime evangelists and 1,000 volunteers. That year they also officially adopted the name, “Salvation Army.” Within twenty-five years, his movement spread to nineteen countries including the U.S., Argentina, Germany, Jamaica, Australia, and Norway. During his lifetime, the Army had outposts in 58 countries and colonies. His movement eventually spread all over the world and is found today in over 100 countries.He and his ministry partners were faced with intense persecution and frequent physical attacks. For example, in 1889 at least 669 of his co-workers were assaulted, including 251 women. Some were killed.

    The Power of Prayer

    Often Booth held all-night prayer meetings before he preached. As a result, people would flood the altars. It was said, “The power of God was wonderfully manifest in the meetings, people were frequently struck down, overwhelmed with a sense of the presence and power of God.”He taught his troops to “Work as if everything depended upon your work and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer.” When salvations were slow to come, he encouraged his troops to “try tears” in conjunction with their prayers.

    Hard Work, Long Days

    Booth, his family, and co-laborers did not merely talk about serving and evangelizing the lost. They were tireless workers. For example, author David Bennett followed Booth on a typical Sunday. After personal devotions, the day started with a 7 a.m. corporate prayer meeting. Following prayer, they served breakfast to the poor from 8 until 9.  After this came an early morning worship service held both in a large open hall and in the open air.  Next, another prayer meeting followed by a much larger morning worship service.Then they ate bag lunches in the hall before yet another worship service was held in the early afternoon followed by feeding afternoon tea to the poor. Then another prayer meeting was held, followed by another outdoor worship service.  This service was interrupted by a near riot caused by a gang, during which Booth and his crew were pelted with stones.  The evening service was attended by 1,000 drunks, prostitutes, vagrants, and criminals. Many came to Christ for repentance and salvation. This was followed by a final prayer meeting closing the day after 15 hours of ministry!

    The Secret of His Success

    At the end of his life, Booth was asked the secret of his success. He replied,
    “I will tell you the secret. God has had all of me… from the day that I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of all Jesus could do with them, on that day, I made up my mind that God would have all of William Booth there was…God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.”  Booth gave his life to reach the least of the least. At his death, approximately 100,000 mourners marched by to pay tribute. 

  • Jesus Died to Make You Dangerous

    Author: vegas Comments: 0 Date: 29 Apr 2013
    Jesus did not die to make you nice. He did not die to make you just a better person. Jesus died to make you dangerous…dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. Let me explain.
    2,000 years ago, Jesus and His disciples were standing at one of the spiritually darkest places on the planet, the Gates of Hell in Ceasarea Philippi. This area was known as the Gates of Hell because there was a cliff with a giant crack in it and the followers of Pan believed THIS was the place where the spirits from Hell would come and go from earth. Pan was a demonic Greek god – the goat god. Therefore, the crack was called the Gates of Hell. They built a temple for Pan there and a court next to it where people all over the world would come to engage in sexual acts with goats during the Pan worship festivals.
    As good Jewish boys, the disciples would never have gone to this place before. It’s twenty-six miles from Galilee, where Jesus and his disciples were from. Jesus used this setting as a graphic illustration. So at this dark, demonic, perverted place, Jesus introduces the word “church’ for the very first time in any of His teachings.
    I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18 (ESV)
    The Gates of Hell was not only a literal place on the earth, it also is a literal place under the earth which is the abode of the devil.  Hell [from the Greek word Hades]. It is used to describe the lower regions, the realm of the dead; the grave, death, hell, the infernal regions. It describes a dark and dismal place in the very depths of the earth, the common receptacle of disembodied spirits. Hades, or Hell, is the flaming internal region where God is absent.
    What Jesus was promising His disciples was that the church He builds would be able to kick down the spiritual gates of Hell and rescue captives from darkness. Jesus died to make you a gate-kicker! Jesus did not die to make you nice. Jesus died to make you dangerous! After all, that was His mission. In His very first sermon, He proclaimed:
    “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed…” Luke 4:18
    If Jesus’ mission was kicking down the gates of Hell and rescuing captives, that is to be our mission.
    Jesus said to them again, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” John 20:21
    Paul and Silas were gate-kickers. In Thessalonica a riotous mob cried out, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too … They are all acting contrary to Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king—Jesus!” (Acts 17:6-7) C.T Studd left everything to serve as missionary in China, then India, and later left his family to serve in Africa, He was a true gate-kicker. He said:
    “Some wish to live within the sound of Church or Chapel bell; I want to run a Rescue Shop within a yard of hell”
    Gates are not offense weapons. They are defensive. We should not be running from the kingdom of darkness, we should be forcibly advancing against it. Jesus said I will build my church” The term “church” is the Greek word ekklesia. “This term was never used for a building, but was a political term describing an assembly of the government in Greek city-states. The ekklesia was responsible for declaring war and developing military strategy. “Jesus promised that He was going to establish a military base from which His kingdom would advance against and bring down the kingdom of darkness” (Engle)

    Jesus did not die to make us nice. He did not die to make you just a better person. Jesus died to make us dangerous…dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. He died to make us gate-kickers! So…

    KICK SOME GATE!!!

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