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If you are considering relocating to our area, we would love to have you be our guest for Sunday School and worship.

When you visit Grace , you will find:

• A caring congregation that will gladly welcome you
• Preaching/teaching that is centered on the Word of God
• Ministries to meet the spiritual needs of every age
• A corporate outlet for truth-filled and moving praise and worship  

       In His Care,
       Pastor Fred Vogel 

Blessings from God’s Word
by Pastor Vogel
March 8, 2010

Around the basketball world at this time of the year the term “March Madness” refers to an exciting time of college tournament action. For a team to be invited to this tournament they must first learn to work together as a team and prove they can win against good teams.

To be a winning team, a coach must first put the team players to the test to determine their abilities and their desire to perform to the best of their abilities. A player who is tall and strong would be wasted if forced to play away from the basket where their height would not be used to score and rebound.

A person who is fast and can handle the basketball well is needed to get the ball from one end of the court to the other. If they were forced to play under the basket they would be of very little use among the “giants.”

God’s people should learn to “work together” to achieve a total teamwork which can prove to be a winner. God has given special talents and gifts to all His children. Each child of God should seek out those gifts, exercise them to the glory of God and work together with other church members who God has given to their local congregation to serve and to meet the needs of the community in which they live.

The Psalmist wrote, “How pleasant and how good it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” (Psalm 133:1) For Christians to dwell together in unity each one much serve the Lord as they have been gifted by God. Just as a great basketball team works together, each one doing what they are best qualified to do, they can overcome great odds and defeat teams which may have more skilled ball players but do not work together as a single unit. Just as a fine-tuned watch works to produce the correct time only when each part does its job, a great church must work together to meet the needs of her community in such a way as to manifest Christ among all who live there. Good players, working together as a single unit will win; not because they are great players, but because they work together for the good of the team.

Great churches are successful not because they have great people, but because they work together for the good of the “team;” the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. To God be the glory for all His church can achieve!

 God’s One Another Plan

Love one another – John 13:34
Depend on one another – Romans 12:5
Be devoted to one another – Romans 12:10
Outdo one another is showing honor – Romans 12:10
Rejoice with one another – Romans 12:15; I Corinthians 12:16
Weep with one another – Romans 12:15
Be of the same mind one toward another – Romans 12:16
Don’t judge one another – Romans 14:13
Receive one another – Romans 15:7
Admonish one another – Romans 15:14
Salute one another – Romans 16:16
Wait for one another – I Corinthians 11:33
Care for one another – I Corinthians 12:25
Serve one another – Galatians 5:13
Be kind to one another – Ephesians 4:32
Forgive one another – Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13
Be tenderhearted toward one another – Ephesians 4:32
Encourage one another – I Thessalonians 5:11
Submit to one another – Ephesians 5:21
Forbear one another – Ephesians 4:2; Colossians 3:13
Stimulate love in one another – Hebrews 10:24
Show hospitality to one another – I Peter 4:9
Minister gifts to one another – I Peter 4:10
Be clothed in humility toward one another – I Peter 5:5
Don’t speak evil against one another – James 4:11
Don’t grumble against one another – James 5:9
Confess your faults to one another – James 5:16
Pray for one another – James 5:16
Fellowship with one another – I John 1:7
Don’t be puffed up against one another – I Corinthians 4:6
Bear ye one another’s burdens – Galatians 6:2