GracePoint Community Church is a family of faith committed to growing in relationship with God, serving others, and bringing hope to a world that desperately needs some good news.
We want to play a part in seeing God bring many in North Andover and the Merrimack Valley to His beautiful grace through the good news of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross for undeserved sinners and his resurrection from the grave, putting a stamp on the reality that God is transforming everything and making all things new.
Share Jesus. Make Disciples. Serve Others.
Our vision is for GracePoint to be a gospel-centered church that actively disciples, trains, and equips believers to live out God’s purpose in their lives.
GracePoint will be a multigenerational, biblical, family-building community that raises up the next generation to continue the work of Christ.
Committed to the Great Commission, GracePoint will support local missions, global missions and church planting to advance the kingdom of God.
We envision GracePoint to be a community destination meeting the practical, relational, and spiritual needs of our local communities, and seeing many come to saving faith in Jesus.
At GracePoint, ministries will be led by members who are ready and passionate about using their God-given gifts for His glory and the good of others.
GracePoint will be a multigenerational, biblical, family-building community that raises up the next generation to continue the work of Christ.
Committed to the Great Commission, GracePoint will support local missions, global missions and church planting to advance the kingdom of God.
We envision GracePoint to be a community destination meeting the practical, relational, and spiritual needs of our local communities, and seeing many come to saving faith in Jesus.
At GracePoint, ministries will be led by members who are ready and passionate about using their God-given gifts for His glory and the good of others.
We bring our vision to life through 10 core values
God’s infallible Word that never changes and always provides grace and truth. Submitting to his Word provides the best way to live.
Align ourselves with God’s will by covering in prayer everything that we do.
Using our God-given gifts in service of his Kingdom.
Intentionally walking alongside other believers while encouraging them to grow in their faith and to serve within the body based on their spiritual gifts, passions, and a sense of calling from God.
Sharing the gospel with others in every setting to lead them to a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Intentionally identifying church members, developing them spiritually and practically, and releasing them to leadership positions within the church body with continued support.
Teaching the community Biblical family values and the importance of a Christ-led loving home while nurturing the families in our congregation.
The church body is a family of God’s image bearers who relate to each other with dignity, grace, honesty, and humility. We do not always agree on everything, but our relationships are never at stake as we prioritize Christ-centered unity above all else.
Showing Jesus’ grace in the Merrimack Valley by actively serving its residents through visitation, support, and outreach.
Living out the command to “Go into all the world and preach the gospel” by praying, giving, and going.
We invite you to explore our beliefs and join us in our pursuit of living out our faith in boldness and passion.
We believe that the Bible, composed of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God. We believe the Bible to be verbally inspired by God through human authors, inerrant in the original writings, and the infallible and final authority in faith and practice.
We believe there is only one living and true God – perfect, infinite and eternal – who exists in three persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who are equal in their divine perfection and harmonious in the execution of their distinct offices in the work of creation, providence and redemption.
We believe God the Father Almighty is the maker of heaven and earth.
He is Father to his eternal Son, Jesus Christ, whom he raised from the dead, by and for his glory. He is also Father to all who are adopted as his sons and daughters through faith in Jesus Christ.
He has made himself known to us through his Son, through the Holy Spirit and through the Scriptures, and has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing.
He has sovereignty over us, affection toward us, and glory for us. To God belong all glory and honor.
We believe that, in the fullness of time, the eternally pre-existent Son humbled himself and assumed human nature by being born of the Virgin Mary, thus uniting organically and indissolubly the divine and human natures in their completeness in the unique person of Jesus Christ.
We believe that God has provided redemption for humanity through the mediatorial work of Christ, who voluntarily offered himself on Calvary as a perfect sacrifice for sin, the just suffering for the unjust, bearing sin's curse, and tasting death for everyone.
We believe that on the third day he rose from the dead in the body, which had been laid in the tomb. He ascended into heaven where he reigns at the right hand of the Father and from where he performs the ministry of intercession.
Jesus shall come again, personally and visibly, to complete his saving work and to consummate the eternal plan of God.
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third eternal Person of the Trinity.
The Spirit was active in the creation empowered true prophets to deliver God’s message and empowered the virgin conception of Jesus.
Since his advent at Pentecost his principal ministry is to reprove and convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; to bear witness to the truth preached to regenerate, baptizing those who repent of their sins and exercise faith in Christ into the body of Christ and seal them for God; to instruct, comfort and guide them; to sanctify them; and to empower them for life and service.
We believe that human beings were created by a special act of God; that we were created in the image and likeness of God, possessing personality and innocence; that we were endowed with power of rational and responsible choice in view of moral ends; and that the purpose of his creation was to glorify God.
We believe Adam and Eve were subject to trial in the Garden of Eden.
Under trial, they lost their holy estate, were alienated from God and became depraved physically, mentally, emotionally, morally, volitionally, relationally and spiritually, by voluntarily transgressing his positive command and yielding to the enticement of Satan. I
n consequence of the literal act of disobedience, the entire human race was implicated as sinners suffering from holistic depravity and so has incurred spiritual death.
We believe that salvation is wholly of grace - being planned by the Father, provided for by the blood of the Son, and applied by the Holy Spirit.
In justification the believer is absolved of his guilt and declared righteous in the sight of God. In adoption the believer is constituted a member of the household of God.
In regeneration new spiritual life is imparted by the Holy Spirit.
In sanctification this spiritual life is strengthened and developed increasingly.
In glorification this work will come to its perfect culmination in an ultimate and complete renewal of human nature.
Repentance and faith are essential attitudes to be found in any one person who rightly claims the blessing of salvation, for they emphasize the fact that it is not through human merit of any kind but the grace of God that redemption is achieved.
We believe that the church invisible and universal is composed of the redeemed of all ages. We believe that the church is manifest locally and visibly through companies of believers in Christ, voluntarily joined together and organized for worship, instruction, equipping, observing the ordinances and fellowship; that it is the duty of the church to give the Gospel as a witness to all people, to build itself up in the most holy faith, and to glorify God.
We believe that both believer’s Baptism and The Lord’s Supper are visible signs of the realities of salvation. We are commanded to observe them, but we do not depend on them for salvation.
We believe that Christ will return at God’s appointed time. Christ will descend from Heaven in the same manner he ascended, the dead shall be raised bodily, that they shall be judged by God, and that those redeemed will enter into full possession of eternal bliss in the presence of God, and the wicked shall be condemned to everlasting punishment.