God’s prevenient grace is with us from birth, preparing us for new life in Christ. “Prevenient” means “comes before.” Wesley did not believe that humanity was totally “depraved” but rather God places a little spark of divine grace within us which enables us to recognize and accept God’s justifying grace. Preparing grace is “free in all for all,” as Wesley used to say.
Today some call God’s justifying grace “conversion” or being “born again.” When we experience God’s justifying grace, we come into that new life in Christ. Wesley believed that people have freedom of choice. We are free to accept or reject God’s justifying grace.
After we have accepted God’s grace, we are to move on in God’s sustaining grace toward perfection.Wesley believed the people could “fall from grace” or “backslide.” We cannot just sit on our laurels, so to speak, and claim God’s salvation and then do nothing. We are to participate in the what Wesley called “the means of grace” and to continue to grow in Christian life.
Grace = God’s unmerited favor. There is nothing that you can do to earn God’s grace and it is available to everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, born of the virgin Mary, crucified on the cross and resurrected on the third day.
Cafe – A coffee house or deli serving a light menu
The Grace Cafe = A safe place for people to learn about and experience God’s unmerited favor, eat some good food, drink some great coffee and fellowship with others who are on the same journey.
The Grace Cafe will be providing nourishment for your mind, body and spirit.
You are invited to join us for the first Grace Cafe Worship. The Grace Cafe is a nu-generation contemporary worship service. We are a welcoming, nurturing, non- judgmental community of believers who are striving to become fully mature as believers in Jesus Christ. If you are ready to begin the journey of finding purpose, significance in a loving caring community then this is the place to be. The Grace Cafe will be opening at 12:30 for food and fellowship. Worship will begin at 1 and end around 1:50. The Cafe will remain open until the crowd leaves. We are going to have fantastic music from Kelly Anderson and Michael Ferro.
