Grace Communion Melbourne Fellowship Group
Melbourne, Florida

We live in an increasingly disillusioned world…A world in which false narratives often carry as much weight as the truth, and sometimes more! Christians encounter resistance to a way of life as well as the foundational pillars of truth that undergird that way of life. We live in a skeptical environment. Today marks perhaps the most important pillar of our faith in the living God… The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. But how do we answer those who resistthis miracle? What if ALL of Christianity rests on the reality of Jesus’ resurrection?

Your pastor & brother,

Steve Schantz

1 Corinthians 15:3-5 RSV

³ For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, ⁴ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, ⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ⁶ Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. ⁷ Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ⁸ Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me. ¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

The Resurrection of the Dead

¹² Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; ¹⁴ if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain. ¹⁵ We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.

Grace & Peace,

Pastor Steve Schantz

Grace Communion Melbourne Fellowship Group – 1^st, 3^rd, and 4^th Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

2^nd Sundays Potluck & Bible Study 1:30 p.m.

Meeting @ Pineda Presbyterian Church 5650 N. Wickham Rd

Charities

1. Food Bank @ Advent Lutheran (13) Advent Lutheran Church | Facebook
2. The Children's Hunger Project the Children’s Hunger Project l Homepage (thechildrenshungerproject.org)
3. Outreach Program for IHB School Supplies (13) City of Indian Harbour Beach Police Department - Posts | Facebook
4. Family Promise HOME | FPOB (familypromiseofbrevard.org)
5. GCI Grace Communion International (gci.org)
6. In His Steps Learning Academy, Inc.
7. Youth Summer Camps
8. Durham NC Start up GCI Church