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Jesus: full of Grace and Truth
Join us on Sundays at 9am, 11am, 7pm.
2 Duke Street, Dunedin North Kids Programs at 9:15 service.

Meeting Location: Leith Bowling Club, 2 Duke Street, Dunedin

Service Times:
Sundays: 9:15am, 11am, and 7pm. Live Stream: YouTube.com/c/GraceDunedin

10/06/2026

This Sunday Night is our second Theology Night (of 5, throughout this year). We're diving into our doctrine of the Bible!

Here's how it starts:

One of the more perplexing things about the Christianity-landscape is the way everyone reads the same Bible, and yet there seems to be so many different interpretations of the Bible out there (and all too many unedifying debates over them!).

There are debates about historical happenings: the Garden of Eden, Moses and the Exodus, Jesus’ miracles, the resurrection. There’s debates about the significance of the law, land, and nation of Israel. About salvation: how Jesus saves, whom he saves, whether and what hell is. About the Holy Spirit: what’s he up to these days? Christians debate about church: leadership, worship, music, baptism, the Lord’s supper. About ethics and engaging with the world: social justice, gender & sexuality, environmentalism, politics. And about the shape of God’s future.

It can feel like a minefield. We even have debates from the Bible about the Bible... How can we know what the Bible really means?

Come on Sunday night and find out!

09/06/2026

Hello! My name is Anita.

One of my biggest challenges in life and as a Christian is fighting the urge to despair when things in my life do not go the way I had hoped or even planned. In moments of hardship, I am tempted to ask “Why is the Lord allowing this?”

It is important to think rightly about the character of God. He is all powerful (Jeremiah 32:17), and has authority over all (Matthew 8:27). The Bible also describes God as good (Psalm 106:1), kind (Psalm 145:17), and loving (John 3:16).

I find great comfort in Romans 8. In verse 35, the author asks if hardship in life means that God no longer loves us. The answer to this question can be found in verse 37, which reads “No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.”

Knowing that God is the One who gives, and also takes away (Job 1:21), and that He is righteous (Psalm 116:5), I can trust that the events in my life will work together for good (Romans 8:28).

Amidst a recent season of great sadness and affliction, I realised that God has given me much more than the earthly relationships, opportunities, and possessions I could ever lose: God has given up the life of His only Son, Jesus Christ, that I may have a great hope and joy for the future. I know that I will spend eternity in the presence of God, and that the new earth and heavens will be a wonderful place!

I find even more reassurance knowing that this hope is a promise that will never be taken from me. Romans 8:38 confirms that “nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord

04/06/2026

We've had a great May Mission Month.
Next up we're heading back to land the Isaiah plane.

Come and join us.

30/05/2026

When Annika came to University at the start of last year, she didn't know God. Tomorrow (11am) she'll be making a public profession of her faith in Christ.
And, at 9am, Eli Boyes will be baptised.
Come and be encouraged by God's work in his people's lives.

14/05/2026

Special treat this week.

At Grace@7 we'll be opening up the question of God and suffering.
Guest speaker Nic Blackie will help us think through a faithful answer to the questions suffering pose to faith in God.

We'll also hear some personal stories about how God works in and comforts us in suffering.

Sunday 7pm. 2 Duke Street. North Dunedin.

09/05/2026

Hi, I’m Adam.
My faith journey has been anything but straightforward. At times I’ve felt almost like Frodo carrying the Ring to Mt Doom!

I’ve always believed the truth will stand up to challenging questions. That’s meant some hard moments where I’ve looked up at the sky (metaphorically speaking) and wondered if anyone was there.

When Jesus cried on the cross “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”, I know how that feels. But I also take a lot of comfort from that. Jesus knew what it was like to feel intense suffering, to question God’s plan, but to trust him anyway.

I haven’t always been so trusting. But I also take comfort from the thief on the cross next to Jesus – the one who could do nothing but confess his faith.
That was enough. And it will be enough for me.

29/04/2026

May is Mission Month at Grace Bible Church, where we devote the month to stirring our hearts for God's mission and supporting our mission partners around the world. On Sundays, hear about what God is doing in Thailand, Africa, PNG, Scotland, as well as closer to home.

Two special events to put in your diary:
Sun 17 May, 7pm - Guest Speaker Nic Blackie will speak on the Big Question of God and Suffering. This is a great one to bring a friend to.

Sat 23rd May - It's the Great Grace Cake Auction! We're raising money to train Christian leaders in PNG, where Kenneth and Jane are serving right now.

09/04/2026

Hi, I'm Owen.

I join with Christ by serving others in PNG in a small village that has a Hospital and a school in the middle of nowhere. I do machincal repairs and welding there, and enjoy working with these guys, who own nothing, but are on fire for Christ. This makes me realise that I need to rely more and more on Christ rather than on the things that we have.

A couple of memorable occasions that helped me to strengthen my faith in Christ were; when my boat driver abandoned me on the side of the river at an unknown village leaving me with a man who did not speak any English and was holding a machete. Thankfully he only used it to open a coconut for me.

Another time I was staying at another village well known for its sorcery and witchcraft, I was told to be careful and keep my doors locked. God provided a wild dog who spent the whole night on my doorstep every night I was there. One night there was a large commotion when it chased something or someone away. This was very unusual for these dogs usually they are roaming looking for food continuously.

These occasions have really strengthened my faith and trust in God.

31/03/2026

Join us for our special Easter services:

GOOD FRIDAY: 10am
EASTER SUNDAY: 9am, 11am, 7pm

It's the heart of it all

Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,
Each soft spring recurrent;
It was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the
Eleven apostles;
It was as His flesh; ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes
The same valved heart
That—pierced—died, withered, paused, and then regathered
Out of enduring Might
New strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence,
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded
Credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
Not a stone in a story,
But the vast rock of materiality that in the slow grinding of
Time will eclipse for each of us
The wide light of day...

from John Updike, “Seven Stanzas as Easter” (1960)

02/03/2026

Hey, I'm Chris, and I’ve been attending Grace Bible Church since 2008.
One of my favourite verses that changed my perspective in a profound way is John 3v30. "He must become greater, I must become less."
John the Baptist is growing his ministry, and this fellow Jesus comes along, with his own following. John's friends ask him how to respond with all these people following Jesus, and that verse is his response.
I definitely lived out the opposite of this verse as a young man, wanting my own life and ambitions to become greater, and for that to happen, God had to become less.
This upside-down idea that our life, personal goals and ambition ought to take second place to Jesus really hit me in my heart and challenged my whole relationship with God. Years later after reading this verse, I am still joyfully learning and practicing what it means for him to become greater in my life,work and family, and for me to become less to make that happen.

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