page_title: Grace Community Church
section_title: Distinctives
hierarchical_section_title: Grace Community Church / Distinctives
caption_attribution_description: English: Grace Community Church Sun Valley building
context_page_description: Grace Community Church is a non-denominational, evangelical megachurch founded in 1956 and located in Sun Valley, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. Noted speaker and radio evangelist John MacArthur is the senior pastor of Grace Community Church. As of 2008, the average weekly attendance was 8,258.
context_section_description: Grace Community Church is elder-ruled and within the Evangelical Protestant tradition, not to be confused with mainstream Evangelicalism. It teaches Calvinist theology, although it is not aligned with a denomination. Grace Community Church holds to the beliefs of the cessation of supernatural spiritual gifts, Lordship salvation, and the sufficiency of Scripture. The church teaches believer's baptism by immersion. Noted for speaking out against movements such as the prosperity gospel, the charismatic movement and the emerging church, the church also adheres to the view that Christian giving should derive voluntarily from the heart, not from a fixed or mandated percentage.
caption: Grace Community Church building
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