About

A Chinese Christian Church in Glendale, Arizona

Dear Friends/Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

Welcome to Antioch Grace Church. Antioch Grace Church is a place to preach the Lord Jesus Christ and study God’s words. We believe that Jesus, who was crucified and resurrected for us, has the power to change people’s lives. Through Him, we can experience God’s great love. The Bible says that this love “surpasses knowledge.” We can experience it personally through our faith in the Lord Jesus.

Because of the great love of God, Antioch Grace Church is also a community that learns to share God’s love, build each other up in love, and experience abundant life in Christ together.

Our mission is: to know Jesus, experience Jesus, and witness Jesus. You are welcome to participate.

Einstein, the greatest scientist of the twentieth century, was interviewed by a reporter in October 1929. The reporter asked him: “Do you accept the historical existence of Jesus?” Einstein replied: “Unquestionably. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”** Einstein’s words are true. If you are a person who pursues the truth of Jesus Christ, we are willing to go with you to know and experience the reality of Jesus Christ.

As the senior pastor of Antioch Grace Church, our brothers and sisters and I are very happy to get to know you, understand your needs, listen to you, and answer your questions. May the Lord bless you greatly.

Darren Fung

Senior Pastor

** “What Life Means to Einstein,” The Saturday Evening Post, 26 Oct 1929.

Our Beliefs

Our STATEMENT OF FAITH

1. The Triune God

We believe in the Triune God as revealed in His plan of salvation in Scripture, who eternally exists in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – of the same divine nature with one another, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. We subscribe to the Nicene Creed (381 AD).

2. Salvation through Jesus Christ

The Son of God, the Word in the beginning, became flesh for fallen human beings. Jesus, as fully God and fully man, lived a blameless life on earth and sacrificed Himself for our sins on the cross. For our salvation, He died on the Cross for us, and was resurrected before ascending to heaven as the eternal mediator between God and man. Though we are saved when we come to faith, salvation is a process whereby we may continually fail but God is faithful to forgive us as we confess our sins.

3. Salvation as the result of God’s sovereign grace

In His love and mercy God offers us justification for our sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When we accept God’s salvation we are adopted into His family and become joint heirs with Christ. We want to live rejoicing in God’s grace and His unmerited favor towards us, with the assurance that we don’t need to strive to earn God’s love.

4. The person, presence and work of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity with the Father and the Son. He convicts us of sin, regenerates believers, lives in all believers /giving us an assurance of our salvation, gives spiritual gifts to the Church so that each member may build up one another in love to the glory of God, and produces an increasing likeness to Christ in our characters. His presence is essential for us to worship, serve, minister and evangelize. We believe in followers of Jesus being filled with the Spirit.

5. The centrality of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ

In His love and grace God offers salvation to all; we need only repent and believe the Lord Jesus Christ and in the saving power of His death and resurrection. When we genuinely believe in Jesus as our only Savior we are justified and acquitted forever, adopted into God’s family and are assured of eternal salvation. With the help of the Holy Spirit faith comes from hearing of God’s Word that allows us to believe in Jesus Christ, to know Him and to live a life of discipleship following and imitating our Lord.

6. The authority of the Bible as God’s infallible word

God has revealed himself in the Scripture (the Protestant Canon of 66 books). The Bible is His infallible Word given by the inspiration of God through human authors. This inerrant Word of God is our supreme authority for faith, life and doctrine, and we want to follow Jesus’ example to believe, speak and live the Word. We need the Holy Spirit to help us to have a true understanding of the Scriptures. We commit ourselves to study the Bible and practice the truth taught in it by the power of the Holy Spirit.

7. The Church is the body and the bride of Christ

We are part of the Universal Church and together with all who truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ we make up the Bride of Christ. We gather as a local church committed to one another and to our leaders under the Lordship of Jesus as Head of the Church and ask our church family to be active members of the body of Christ.

8. The two sacraments of the Church

We believe in the two sacraments instituted by Christ for the Church: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. A sacrament is the sign and seal of God’s grace in Christ confirming to us our salvation through Christ alone and our union with the Triune God. We believe in baptism by immersion but in exceptional cases (e.g. for people with illness), we may practice baptism by sprinkling of water.

9. Marriage is a symbol of the union between Christ and His Church

Men and women are made in the image and likeness of the Triune God, to reflect His harmonious inter-personal relationships and interdependence. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Marriage between a man and a woman is symbolic of the union between Christ and His Church. We teach and encourage husband and wife to commit to each other in love and faithfulness in their marital relationship.

10. A lifestyle of love

As a community of believers, love should be our hallmark. We want to receive the love of God that is given to us, express our love for Him, and live a lifestyle of love towards other people. Jesus prayed that His followers would be united in love and we want to embody that, supporting each member of our family and being humble, for/giving and quick to ask for forgiveness for our own mistakes.

11. The second coming of Christ

We believe in that Blessed Hope, the personal, imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

12. The eternal state

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men and women: the saved to eternal life and joy in the presence of our Lord, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment.