May 9, 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 5 (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 chapters 16–19. 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
Many Christians encounter the word "eschatology" within the context of learning about the end-times events. It is, of course, natural, since the Greek word "eschatos" means "last" or "final." Unfortunately, approaching eschatology merely as a study of end-times does disservice, because the proper sense of eschatology is more than the end-times events. Properly speaking, eschatology is the study of God's work throughout history which culminates in the accomplishment of his purposes. That is why, for example, when Isaiah repeatedly speaks about "in that Day" his focus is not really on the Antichrist or the mark of the Beast, or any such things that tend to dominate the discussion of eschatology these days. Rather, Isaiah's, and indeed all of Bible's focus, is decisively and overwhelmingly on the restoration and the renewal of all things.
Indeed, it is precisely that view of eschatology that we see in 2 Peter 3:10–13. When God restores all things in new creation, we will become a part of new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. And since no one but the righteous, and nothing but righteousness, will be found in new heavens and new earth, Peter urges us to be the people of righteousness today. After all, there is no reason to think we will enjoy heaven where there is only righteousness if we do not enjoy it now. And if we are not the people upon whom righteousness is stamped today, why do we think we will have any part in new heavens and the new earth?
In that day, when God's eschatological kingdom is upon us, there will only be righteousness and only the righteous people will enter into it. Will you be there?