Community Church Griffin

Community Church Griffin Sunday Worship Hours: 10:30am - Noon The vision of Community Church Griffin is to proclaim the historic Christian faith to Griffin/Spalding County.

This means that we look to Jesus with hope and expectation to transform us, our city and our county; we desire to glorify Jesus by loving and serving others; and we seek to provide a place where people with real questions can hear the gospel of grace and experience the transforming power of Jesus in their lives. Join us on Sundays at 10am for coffee and fellowship with service at 10:30am.

01/25/2026

Good morning CCG family! Service is still on for today so please come worship Jesus Christ our King with us at 10:30am!

- In Christ

01/18/2026

Good Morning, CCG Family!
Our worship service is still on for this morning. We hope to see you there and look forward to worshipping together!

09/14/2025

Reminder: Time of Prayer tonight at 5pm.
No childcare provided but children are encouraged to attend.

06/30/2024

Hello CCG family and friends of CCG!

We are looking for a part-time Church Admin to help support the life of the church while also assisting Pastor Joe Arnold. If you know of anyone who may be a good candidate, please inquire with CCG Deacon, Jordan Piland, to learn more about the position. He can be reached at (678) 603-0379.

In Christ

06/11/2024

The Joy of the Lord (7): Pleasure in God

Our working definition of Joy is, “Joy is that state of pleasure in God that a Christian can, should, and will have by believing all that God is to us in Christ.” We focus now on the fact that joy is a state of pleasure in God. Joy is a STATE. It’s not primarily a feeling, though good feelings normally bubble up from it like foam in a churning hot tub. Joy can flourish as the bush in the cavorting flame even when feeling’s as absent as a smile or frown on a stoic’s face. Even more, joy can exist in circumstances about which emotion could easily dress in funeral black and mood could easily turn darker than Satan’s accusations against Job and the body could easily writhe in the agony of a civil war soldier going through a battlefield amputation. Joy is often a Paul and Silas praying and singing praises to God while lying in the dank dreary darkness of an inner prison with its back scourged to a bloody pulp and its hip sockets groaning with grim grief because of legs stretched as far east from west as possible just shy of being yanked out. So, if joy isn’t first and foremost a feeling what is it? It’s a state as marriage is a state and motherhood is a state and being an American is a state. Marriage and motherhood and being an American are ways of being, modes of existence, and styles of living. Joy is that way of being, that mode of existence, that style of living that is characterized by PLEASURE in God. Joy is pleasure in WHAT God is. Joy can no more criticize God than the angel Gabriel could disobey him. Joy looks at God and says of him what Pilate said of Jesus: I find no fault in him. Joy would no more attempt to change God than a leopard would attempt to change its spots. Just the opposite. Joy finds every one of God’s attributes---those sparkling, splendid, superb traits that make him “God” and not something else---joy finds each and every one of these from his holiness to his justice to his wisdom to his faithfulness to his love to his grace---a thing of matchless beauty. Joy delights in each as loving parents delight in each of their children. Joy joys in thinking about each of God’s traits as often as a first-time mother and father think of the little one now mesmerizing them. And joy thinks about God because he is so pleasing to think about. Joy delights in God’s “excellent greatness.” Joy says to God, “I will be glad and rejoice in Thee” because every thought of him “with sweetness fills the breast.” The essence of joy, the thing that makes joy “joy” and not something else is the fact that in its mind and in its heart and in its soul joy is “joy in the Lord,” this state of pleasure with God, this way of being, this mode of existence, this style of living that is so enthralled by the beauty and wonder and magnificence and majesty of God that can only be described as pleasure in him. (Lord willing, to be continued.)

06/06/2024

A re-post from 2002 because I feel the sentiments expressed even more strongly!!!

An open letter from a grateful American to Captain John H. Miller on the seventy-eighth anniversary of the storming of Normandy‘s beaches.

Dear Captain Miller:

On this 6 day of June in the year of our Lord 2022, my heart once again joins the now elderly Private James Francis Ryan at your grave. As I do so, I find that I cannot take my eyes off the dove white starkness of the cross marking where you rest. It mesmerizes me with a strange Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde mixture of grief and gratitude. Grief, because of how much life you had to live when you made the supreme sacrifice. Gratitude, because of how much life I have lived because you so willingly laid down yours in the warrior's hallowed trinity of duty, honor, and courage. Because of your soldierly steadfastness, for just a handful of years shy of fourscore, I have lived and moved and had my being in this land of the free filled with liberty’s largesse. I know that, under God, I have lived the American dream because you and your Band of Brothers endured the nightmare of staining Normandy’s beaches with your blood. Were I Shakespeare gifted, I could not conjure up adequate words to express how deeply I appreciate what you did. I can only do what Private Ryan did at your grave. So by this letter I stand and say to you, Captain John H. Miller, I salute you, Sir, and thank you for your service to your country. Sincerely, Charley Lynn Chase

06/03/2024

The Joy of the Lord (6): Initial Application.

We must pause here to make an initial application from our working definition of joy. I have defined joy as “That state of pleasure with God a Christian can, should, and will have by believing what God is to us in Christ.” Thus, joy is a by-product of centering on God’s relationship to us through the Lord Jesus Christ. This fact shows us how joy is found, maintained, lost, and recovered. Joy is FOUND by focusing on God in Christ. Be as preoccupied with Who God is to you in Jesus as a politician is with being reelected and joy will share its sweetness with you as surely as does biting into a slice of apple pie a la mode. Joy is MAINTAINED in the same way. As surely as he kept the bush in the flame, God in Christ will keep in joy that believer whose eyes stay on Him as continuously as a lifeguard’s scanning the beach. Joy is LOST when you take your eyes off God in Christ just as a car swerves the moment its driver takes his eyes off the road to read a text. Look at yourself more than you look at Him by thinking about yourself as frequently as a two-year old says “Mamma”; let how you feel dominate your thoughts as a tyrant the country he rules with the proverbial iron-hand; focus on what others are doing to you or saying about you the way a thin-skinned actor does a harsh review of his latest movie; let the dark dreary decaying flowers of anger, envy and resentment festoon your mind and joy will bolt away as skittishly as a deer sniffing the scent of marigolds. If you’re as joyless now as Legion was when he was demon-possessed it’s because you’re looking at someone or something other than who and what God is to you in Christ. Praise God, your joy can be RECOVERED as quickly as sin can be forgiven. TURN your thoughts to God here, now, as a man whose lost his keys turns his thoughts to when he last had them, and joy will return as surely, swiftly, and sweetly as a discharged patient goes home after a two-week hospital stay. THINK again about Him and that thinking will be a sheep dog herding your wandering joy back to your heart’s fold. THANK Him for all that He is to you in Jesus and you will ingest that medication that will lift your joy from its sickbed as the Savior lifted Peter’s mother-in-law from her fever-induced illness. TELL yourself that God is your Father through Jesus and joy will run to you and cling to you like a small child to its mother in the presence of strangers and pervade you like a new car's fragrance, and empower you as Jesus empowered Peter to walk on water. Abba will keep in abounding joy those Christians who stay their minds on Him. (Lord willing, to be continued.)

05/28/2024

The joy of the Lord (5): The Meaning of Joy (B)

We continue unpacking our working definition of joy. Here is that definition: "Joy is that state of pleasure in God that a Christian can, should, and will have by believing what God says He is to us in Jesus." The joy OF the Lord is joy IN the Lord. It’s joy that comes from focusing on God. But when it comes to focusing on God, Martin Luther gives us a caveat that’s as necessary as surgery for removal of a facial melanoma. With Solomon-like wisdom Luther warns us to have nothing to do with the “naked God in his majesty.” His pungent phraseology speaks of who and what God is apart from Christ. Apart from Christ God is a “consuming fire.” His blunt majesty is no friendlier to joy than Satan’s accusations were to godly Job. And joy can no more exist in his naked presence than happiness can be found in the heart of a believer with known yet unconfessed sin in his life. It’s God as He has made Himself known to us in, by, and through the Lord Jesus Christ that is the Vine on which the fruit of joy is produced. Christian, if you wish to enjoy joy; if you wish to have it hydrating you as a well of water springing up into thirst-quenching life; if you desire to have joy continuously renewing its strength, joy mounting up with wings like an eagle, joy running and not becoming weary, joy walking and not fainting---and what Christian in his or her right mind does not want these things even more than a sick man wants to be made well?---if you wish to live and move and have your being in joy, to be rooted and grounded in joy, to have joy with you even as you walk through the darkest of valleys, then focus on who and what God is to you in Jesus. It’s as you focus all that He is to you in Jesus and all that He’s done for you in Jesus and all that He is doing for you in Jesus and all that He will do for you in Jesus that your joy will leap as embryonic John the Baptist did in his mother’s womb. The joy OF the Lord is joy IN the Lord who makes Himself known to us in Jesus. Think about HIM and you will rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. (Lord willing, to be continued.)

05/24/2024

The Joy of the Lord (4): The Meaning of Joy (A)

Our working definition of joy is, "Joy is that state of pleasure in God that a Christian can, should, and will have by believing what God says He is to us in Jesus." We begin dissecting this definition now. The central truth about joy is how tethered it is to God. Joy is a kingdom disposition the Father delights in giving us (Romans 14:17). Joy is an attitude of His that the Lord Jesus delights in reproducing in us (John 15:11). Joy is character fruit the Spirit delights in developing in us (Galatians 5:22). God is joy’s habitat. God is joy’s greenhouse. God is joy’s Delta fertile soil. God is joy’s orchard. God is the mouth from which joy’s river flows. God is the bush on which joy’s roses grow. God is the sun from which joy’s light and heat emanate. God is the song joy’s nightingale sings. Joy will no more grow where God is not known than lilies will grow in the Sahara. Joy will no more flourish where God is known but not focused on than a vegetable garden will produce its tomatoes and peas and lettuce without the gardener’s tender loving care. But where God is known by one who listens to His self-description in the Bible and takes it at face value; and where God is thought about as often as teenagers text and entrepreneurs dream big dreams and PGA golfers work on their short game; then, joy will be as present as dancing at a wedding reception and joy will be as prominent as that star leading the wise men to the manger and joy will be as power-producing as a New York City grid empowering a huge swath of the Big Apple. Do you want to be joyful? Focus on God and joy will come in and make its home in your life and share its pleasures with you as surely as faith in Jesus will get you to heaven. (Lord willing, to be continued.)

05/21/2024

The Joy of the Lord (3): What is Joy?

Anyone who wishes to help the people of God dare not preach or write with a Pharaoh mentality. Pharaoh demanded that Israel make bricks. But Pharaoh withheld the straw needed for the job. Similarly, it does the people of God no good to urge them to make the bricks of joy without giving them the straw of a definition. This makes a defining of the meaning of joy, to the best of his ability, the job of any Christian preacher/writer pressing upon God’s people His call to them to be joyful. Having pressed God’s call in two previous posts, I come now to give my definition of joy. Alas, as any reader will quickly see, my definitional lamb isn’t without spot or blemish. It’s no more perfect than its author is. It wears no halo. Still, we can’t sing the song of joy without some words. Here, then, are my lyrics for this trait that is to characterize a Christian in sunshine and storm: JOY IS THAT STATE OF PLEASURE IN GOD THAT A CHRISTIAN CAN, SHOULD, AND WILL HAVE BY BELIEVING WHAT GOD SAYS HE IS TO US IN JESUS. (Lord willing, to be continued)

05/07/2024

The Joy of the Lord (1).

Someone once said of the 18th century evangelist George Whitefield, “Mr. Whitefield was so cheerful he tempted me to become a Christian.” Blessed temptation! May everyone who names the Name of Christ become such a sweet enticement to those who do not know Him. Yet note what it was that made Whitefield whet the appetite of unbelievers for the bread of life. It was the fact that he was “cheerful.” And not merely cheerful. No. “So cheerful.” Whitefield was a Christian with cheerfulness in the superlative. Cheerfulness filled him as the waters cover the seas. Cheerfulness emanated from him as the sun’s heat and waves do from the celestial strong man as he runs his daily race. Cheerfulness characterized him as heavy rain, thunder, and lightning do a severe storm and sweetness does the taste of honey and love does the marriage of a Christlike husband and a Proverbs 31 virtuous woman wife. Christian, surely you wish to be Whitefield-attractive for that One who is altogether lovely and the fairest of ten thousand. Then be cheerful. The Biblical word for this cheerfulness is joy. ‘Joy in the Lord’ to be precise. The place to begin becoming this blessed temptation is by having that generous One who hears prayer hear you praying, “Lord, give me a double portion of Whitefield’s joy!” Bring this request to Him with confidence because you know that “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” (D. V., To Be Continued).

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