September 27, 2020
Upcoming Events and Notices
We have resumed in-person worship service. Please join us for worship at 11 AM. We request all adults and older children to wear a mask and maintain social distancing.
You can find the order of worship and songs here.
The September 20, 2020 sermon, Proverbs 3:29–35. "Grace and Honor" is available on our church website. You can also catch up on older sermons from our Sermon page and subscribe to sermon podcast here.
September 30 (Wednesday 7 PM): We will begin a new online study series based on J.I. Packer's "Knowing God." Please join us via Zooom. We encourage you to read "Chapter Two: The People Who Know Their God" for this week's study.
Thank you for your continued support of Grace Fallbrook (PCA). Your loving support makes the proclamation of the gospel and the building up of the saints possible. Please continue to mail in your gifts and offerings to our church treasurer, Bruce Summers. In addition, our church website now features online giving. Please visit the church website and click on "Give" which you will find in the upper left corner of our church's website. When you click on "Give Online Now" button on that page, you will be directed to the PCA Foundation where you give towards Grace Fallbrook (PCA).
Before We Worship
During this week's Knowing God study, we had an opportunity to reflect on the difference between knowing about God and knowing God. One may know a great deal about God without actually knowing God. But that does not count. For the only thing that matters is actually knowing God, not just knowing about God.
Dr. Packer helped us to see one of the sure signs that we know God is that we have a great energy for God. This energy shows itself as a zeal for the Lord, especially in a world that defies God's glory. Those who know God do not sit idle with apathy. For who could sit still while our Beloved is dishonored? This zeal also shows itself in ardent prayer. For to know God truly means to know him in a loving way. When a person knows God in an antagonistic way, every action is drenched with hostility and we go out of our way to avoid meeting them if at all possible. But not so with the ones we love. We love them and so we love the time spent with them. And because we love them, their business becomes ours. Isn't that what prayer is? It is time spent with our Beloved, and in this meeting we zealously look after his "business," pray for his will to be done, and ask that somehow we may assist in furthering his affairs.
No doubt, it was a very humbling study. But also a very encouraging one. It stirred up in our hearts a fresh and new desire to know God in a loving way. Indeed, that is our calling and desire, and, with God's help, precisely what we intend to do this Lord's Day.