May 16, 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

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

May 19 (Wednesday 7 PM): We will finish our book study on Dane Ortlund's "Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers." Please read chapters 20–23, and Epilogue. The chapters are short and easy to read! Zoom Meeting ID: 876 1265 9998

June 13 (Lord’s Day): Lord willing, we look forward to resuming our monthly fellowship meal after the worship service. Please join us!

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' opponents dismissively called Jesus "a friend of tax collectors and sinners" (Matthew 11:19). Clearly, they meant it as an insult. They were insinuating that birds of a like feather flock together, that only a sinner chooses to associate with sinners. They were thinking that only a sinner feels comfortable around other sinners, and since Jesus was so comfortable with the worst of sinners, he himself must be a terrible sinner!

However, they could not have offered Jesus a greater praise than to call him "a friend of tax collectors and sinners." And despite getting just about everything wrong about Jesus, they got this one right! Jesus is indeed "a friend of tax collectors and sinners." For Jesus is not repulsed by our sin. He does not recoil with disgust when we sin. He does not keep himself at a distance when we stumble. Jesus is not a fair-weather friend, one who is around as long as we are doing well and things are going splendidly for us. Jesus is a friend in all seasons, especially when we are dirty, defiled, and ashamed. When we feel least entitled to Jesus' love and friendship, he is especially then our friend who stands with us.

Do not be ashamed to come to Jesus. Do not hesitate to ask for his help. Jesus has never stopped loving you, and he never will.