Grace Fellowship Church

02/25/2025

5725 Hwy 18 E Newport! We’re a church committed to The Scriptures and aiming to glorify God in all we do. We hope you’ll find this video helpful and the videos to come!

10/20/2024

Join us this morning at 10:30 AM as we continue our series through 1 John! We’ll be reflecting on the joy that comes from knowing Christ and walking in the truth.

Come ready to worship and dive deeper into God’s Word. We’d love to have you with us!

09/11/2024

Come worship with us.

Sundays:
9:30 a.m.- Brad is going through the Psalms during Equipping Hour
10:30 a.m.- Jarred is preaching through the book of Colossians
5:30 p.m.- Billy is doing a Bible study on the book of Revelation

Wednesday night:
6:30 p.m. Jarred is doing a Bible study in the book of 2 Corinthians

Sunday services are located at 5725 Hwy 18 E Newport

Wednesday night service is located at 1118 Nancy Ave. Newport

07/09/2024

Most frequently asked questions part 2:

-Why do you have to have a Confession of Faith?
Every church does and should have their own confession of faith. A confession of faith was initially created to express what fundamentally a local church believes both in primary things and secondary things. It’s the best way to publicly affirm and deny any thing that may go unaddressed.

-Why Hymns and not more contemporary music?
God has made music to be a very powerful means of communication. Songs are to be used regularly. But they also are designed to make truth memorable. Much like catechism, it embeds things in the mind through the medium of rythm and rhyme. Therefore, we want our songs to be rich in theology and also to be accessible by all people. Most hymns can be easily memorized or learned almost immediately. Also, we have found that most, not all, contemporary Christian music is either directly or indirectly influenced by some of our modern day false teachers and heretics. When we sing their songs, we are running a significant risk of affirming them before our congregation. Another point is that most, not all, contemporary Christian music is more focused on being successful in the sphere of the world than in the building up of the body. It commonly sacrifices eternal truth for other things. In order to keep things simple, we lean on the tried and true hymns of grace.

-Are you political?
The Scriptures, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ are all things that impact the political sphere. While we do not practice using the Word of God to preach/teach politics, we do allow the Word of God to speak flat-footed to the politics of our day. One person once said that “politics are merely just an expression of one’s ethics.” Indeed, and today’s “ethics” are wildly in rebellion against God’s Holy Word, therefore, as good undershepherds of the flock, we must speak to them accordingly.

-What about growth?
This is an area where “growth” must be defined. If it means for spiritual maturity in the life of the church, then we are hard set on that becoming a reality. If it means to increase the number of people in our body, then only if that is what the Lord desires for us. While we excitedly welcome new faces, we know that our goals are quite distinct from many churches and therefore may seem off-brand. However, we strive for biblical accuracy and faithfulness over the numerical and financial growth of the church. John MacArthur once said “we aim to take care of the depth and let God handle the breadth.”

07/07/2024

We commonly receive inquiries regarding the following topics:

-Do you meet in houses?
We do meet in homes.
Sunday mornings we meet in a large room with chairs spread out (and couches in each of the cornering walls. We use a preaching podium as this fits our belief that the Word of God is central—not necessarily the preacher of it.
Wednesday nights we meet in a smaller home in a much more relaxed and casual setting.

- Are you Calvinists?
While we don’t necessarily find the stigma around the word helpful, we do embrace reformed theology. We find it much more beneficial to look at our confession of faith found in the 1689 London Baptist Confession.

-What do you do with children in worship?
We believe the best environment for children on Sunday is to be with their parents in worship of our Lord. They learn best by watching their parents. We do offer a room for toddlers and infants in the case that the parents need to find a relief for them; however, we strongly encourage and support children in the worship service.

-What if my kids are rowdy?
Our current membership consists of young boys that love to be boys. While we do expect a general control of children during worship, we also understand the reality of them. We consider children in worship to be, overall, a blessing not a burden.

-What does Sunday morning look like?
Our focus on the Lord’s day is to make it about Him as much as possible. We value the Word and the sacraments as well as the common means of grace. So we will have a pastor who leads in singing of hymns alongside the congregation participating in responsive reading of the Word in adoration, corporate confession of sin, as well as catechism question and answering, recitation of the Apostle’s Creed and the Lord’s Prayer with the preaching of God’s Word in an expository fashion.

06/02/2024

Come and worship with us this Sunday.
Equipping Hour 9:30- Brad is leading us through the Psalms
Preaching Hour 10:30- Billy leads us through Liturgy before Jarred continues through the book of Daniel.

5725 Hwy 18 E
Newport,AR

05/25/2023

Excited to announce that starting on Sunday, June 4 - we will begin a Sunday night informal Bible Study on the book of Romans.

Please begin reading chapter 1 and come prepared to discuss, ask questions, and how to apply it in today’s time.

Invite your family and friends and join us! The more the merrier.

5725 Highway 18 East Newport Ar!

02/16/2023

Statement of Faith

This title can be purchased in print form from Founders Press. For a discussion of how robust a confession of faith should be, see B.H. Carroll and Robust Confessionalism. For a suggestion about how a church might subscribe to the Second London Confession of Faith, see How to Subscribe to the Second...

01/30/2023