April 4, 2021

Upcoming Events and Notices

We have resumed in-person worship service. Please join us at 11 AM. You can find the order of worship and songs here

Due to technical problems the March 28th service and sermon were not recorded. Lord willing, the recording of the April 4th service will be made available Sunday afternoon. We will send you a notification by email.

Please join us as we read another collection of great books for the year 2021. You can find the list here.

April 7 (Wednesday 7 PM): We will begin a new book study on Dane Ortlund's "Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers." Please read the Introduction and chapters 1–3. The chapters are short and easy to read! Zoom Meeting ID: 876 1265 9998

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 can give towards Grace Fallbrook (PCA).

Before We Worship

Jesus rose from the dead. No, we do not mean that Jesus "rose" from "the dead" in some figurative or metaphorical sense. Rather, we confess without any equivocation or reservation that Jesus was crucified, that he died, that he was buried, and on the third day that his lifeless corpse was made alive, breath returned to his lungs 3 days after after he took his last breath, that his heart began pumping blood 3 days after it had stopped beating. Thought, intention, desire, and purpose returned to his dead brain that had been deprived of blood and oxygen for 3 days. Jesus rose from the dead in the most physical, literal, and human sense. For his resurrection was not like the grotesque "resurrection" of Hollywood zombies, devoid of reason and humanity. Rather, when Jesus rose from the dead, it was a resurrection that restored his full humanity. Indeed, Jesus was resurrected to a glorified humanity, to achieve as our Forerunner and Champion what human beings were created to be. Adam and Eve fell, and we in and through them, all suffered the loss of that exalted calling and privilege. But Jesus rose from the dead into glory and wholeness, the object of beauty and complete satisfaction in God's eyes.

But the wonder does not end there. Jesus' real and transformative resurrection from the state of humility to the state of glory is the downpayment towards our full redemption. One day, we will also be really resurrected from the dead. Just as it happened to Jesus, we will be raised out of a life of weakness and suffering into a life of strength and glory. And on that day, we will at last be what we were always meant to be and have always longed to be. We will be whole.

So we celebrate Jesus' resurrection. We do not merely look back to the glorious things God has done in the past. We also look forward to the glory that is ahead of us. Jesus' victory is our victory. His glory is our glory. Hallelujah!