Welcome to Grace at Home. Below are worship resources to sustain and strengthen our faith. Click on the pictures below to access the video content. Scriptures and prayers are located below the links. Due to COVID-19 positivity rates, Grace Community Christian Church will continue to share in worship online.

The building is open for in person worship this morning. As guidelines change and vaccine is made available, we look forward to gathering safely again in person with COVID mitigation measures in place.

"Great in the Small"
Inspiring video (Skit Guys)
"Our God Reigns"
(sing along)
"10 Best Ways to Live"
(Children's moment)
"Room At The Table"
(Song of reflection)

"We are Disciples of Christ"
(Video about Disciples identity and community)
"Setting Our Hope on Christ"
(Communion and brief reflection by
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore)
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Thank you for your heartfelt gifts and generous support through the shifts of the past year. Your steadfast giving makes a difference. We are grateful for your ministry.

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One of the amazing realities of adoption is the spiritual ruling and legal ruling (in many states) that adopted children and biological children are equal inheritors under the law.
This is good news for each of us, for we’ve been adopted as God’s children! 

The Psalmist reminds us: “the earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it.” (Ps. 24:1)
The author of Ephesians writes: God “has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing.” (Eph. 1:3b). We ALL receive redemption, forgiveness, and an inheritance of God’s Spirit.

With an inheritance like that, how can we not eagerly share, with open hands, the resources which we’ve been given? With glad hearts, let us offer signs and symbols of our rich inheritance back to the God from whom we have received these gifts.

Offering prayer

God of all life, we pray you will accept these gifts: inherited from you and returned to help accomplish your will in the world.Receive not only this treasure, but also our time and our talents. 
 
Bless all who have given, and all who have a desire to give even if they don't have the capacity to give at this moment. Use this offering and use us, to build up your Realm here on earth, as it is in heaven. Amen
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Opening Prayer

God of all creation, everything that you have made lifts its unique voice to praise you
in all of your glory. As we worship here,
we join our voices to the one true song —
the song the morning stars began,
the song King David danced,
the song the angels echoed
at the birth of your Son.
Glory to you, Holy God! Glory!
Let this time of worship be wholly to the praise of your glory. Amen.
Prayer of Praise for Grace


God, you have poured out grace upon grace,
freely, in great abundance, on me, and all of your beloved children. Though we never earned it, we are made new through the blood of Christ. In Christ we are forgiven, signed with the Spirit, lavished with gift upon gift,
released into hope to live for praise and for glory.

As we gather our thoughts into quietness,
we confess our sins to the One who knows us best. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. We dare to believe that we are part of a plan conceived before the foundation of the universe but we don't always live as God’s children or honor our inheritance. We know ourselves called, but we’re so easily distracted. We know ourselves loved, but we balk at the cost.

Release us into hope to live for your praise as we say the prayer that Jesus taught the Disciples to pray. "Our Father, who art in heaven...Amen." 
Scripture
Ephesians 1:3-13
The Message version
3-6 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.
7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
11-12 It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.
13-14 It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This down payment from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life.
Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990