Grace Fellowship Church in Downtown Asheboro, NC

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Join us Sundays at 10:15 at the Shepherd's Way building in beautiful downtown Asheboro!

These daily devo­tion­als are based upon the ser­mon text for the pre­vi­ous week. Our desire is that you spend a bit of time each day focus­ing on God’s word and how it fits into your life today.

Each devo­tional can be down­loaded to your com­puter and pro­vides ques­tions and thoughts for you and your fam­ily from Monday-Saturday. Read these alone or at the din­ner table. Stay con­nected to God’s word through­out the week so that your eyes can be con­tin­u­ally focused upon Jesus and his pre­cious promises.

“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and sacrificial

They enter the community of Christians with their demands set up by their own law, and judge one another and God accordingly. It is not we who build. Christ builds the church. Whoever is mindful to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it, for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it.

We must confess he builds. We must proclaim, he builds. We must pray to him, and he will build.

We do not know his plan. We cannot see whether he is building or pulling down. It may be that the times which by human

John's gospel contains an interesting comparison / contrast between Jesus' reactions to events at two different celebrations. Chapter 2 has both episodes back to back with only a single sentence acting as a transition between the two. The Gospels, are works of literature as well as being historical accounts of Jesus' ministry; each being arranged with great deliberation by the human author (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) with a specific audience in mind. John gives his reason for writing in John 20:31

"But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."

John writes to a an audience who is living far from the place the original events took place (most likely in

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