Grace Communion Fellowship Sioux Falls

09/06/2026

09/05/2026

You are welcome to worship with us this Sunday.
September 6, 2026
11:00 AM - Service
Active Generations- East Location, Room 115
5500 E Active Generations Place, Sioux Falls
Being Reconciled in Jesus
Romans 13:8-15
If you would like more information about Grace Communion Sioux Falls, here is a link on our website:
http://www.gcichurches.org/siouxfalls

09/02/2026

Pray with us this month -

“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” — Karl Barth

This September, we gather in prayer — seeking God’s peace in a world that often feels divided. May his love shape how we care for one another and serve the communities around us.

Let's pray together:https://resources.gci.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/prayer-guide-09-2026.pdf

08/31/2026

The God Who Hears

(from Ted Johnston via GCI Update, Devotional)

O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. (Psalm 65:2 ESV)

To hear from God is a great blessing. But it’s also a great blessing that God hears us. Consider the story of Hagar. When cast out into the wilderness, alone and desperate, she discovered that God is “the God who sees me” (Genesis 16:13). Then in Genesis 21:17, we are told that “God heard the boy [Hagar’s infant son, Ishmael] crying.”

These statements reveal something essential about the very nature of God: He is the God who hears!

To say that God hears is to say that he is moved, that he responds, that he is personally involved. These are truths that reach their full expression in Jesus Christ. And we are told in Hebrews 4:15-16, that as our High Priest, Jesus sympathizes with our weaknesses.

In Jesus, God not only hears human cries, but also enters into them. Think of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane where his prayers were raw, honest, and deeply human. And though the path of his suffering was not removed, God heard those prayers. The Father was present with Jesus in his suffering.

This reshapes how we understand being “heard.” It is not a guarantee of immediate relief but of divine presence and faithful response. So, when we pray — whether our words are articulate or faltering, hopeful or weary — we are not speaking into silence. We are being heard within the very life of the triune God who hears.

Prayer

Lord, you are the God who hears — not from a distance but from within the depths of our lives. Teach us to trust that no cry is lost, no whisper ignored. In Jesus, our High Priest, draw us into your listening love, that we may find rest in your faithful presence. Amen.

08/29/2026

You are welcome to worship with us this Sunday.
August 30, 2026
11:00 AM - Service
Active Generations- East Location, Room 115
5500 E Active Generations Place, Sioux Falls
Interupting the Silence
Exodus 3:1-15
If you would like more information about Grace Communion Sioux Falls, here is a link on our website:
http://www.gcichurches.org/siouxfalls

08/21/2026

You are welcome to worship with us this Sunday.
August 23, 2026
11:00 AM - Service
Active Generations- East Location, Room 115
5500 E Active Generations Place, Sioux Falls
The Silent Sovereingty of God
Exodus 1:8-2:10
If you would like more information about Grace Communion Sioux Falls, here is a link on our website:
http://www.gcichurches.org/siouxfalls

08/18/2026

Shared from Trinitarian Ministry and Worship

Exegesis of Philippians 2:12-13

(from Chad Bird)

"Work out your salvation with fear and trembling." These words from Paul often confuse people. What is the apostle getting at?

Let’s first get the context from Philippians 2:12-13 and add the Greek verbs:

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out [κατεργάζομαι] your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works [ἐνεργέω] in you, both to will and to work [ἐνεργέω] for his good pleasure.

Even in English, we can see how the theme of “work” is reflected in the two Greek verbs, both from the root idea of εργον (“work”; we get our word ergonomics from this).

Second, keep in mind something that is not apparent in translation: that when Paul writes “work out your own salvation,” he is using the 2nd person plural (y’all). He is writing to the church in Philippi, not an individual believer. Contextually, he is telling the “y’all” of the church to obey in his absence, work out their salvation, do everything without grumbling, etc. (2:14ff).

Third, in the same verse in which Paul tells the church to “work out their salvation,” he reminds them that this “working” is really the work of God, for he creates both the will to act and the actual work itself so that he might be pleased with the result. As he says, “It is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”

In short, Paul is telling the church: be who you already are in Christ. The Father has given salvation to y’all fully and freely in Jesus. He has made you the church, the body of Christ. Now, be the church, be the saved, be those who obey the apostle. And remember, this matter is of the ultimate seriousness, for it pertains to God himself, so do this “with fear and trembling.” And remember, lest you become prideful, that when y’all do act like the saved, that it is not you but the grace of God that brings this about, for “it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”

To “work out your own salvation,” therefore, is to be the church, live as the church, work as the church, in which the full and free salvation of Jesus is doing its work.