Pastor’s E-Pistle

Allow me to introduce myself, although I have had the privilege of meeting and speaking with many of you already. I am Alan Benson. I am the new Senior Pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Wilmington, NC. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that God has led me, my wife, and four daughters to the ministry here at Grace. I am overwhelmed at the privilege that is ours to serve the Lord here in this place. God is doing a tremendous work at Grace. God’s people are hungry for truth, busy in serving, and burdened for souls. We are seeing tremendous growth in the spiritual lives of the people who make up the Grace family and numerical growth as they reach out into their sphere of influence and impact their friends and loved for Christ and extend an invitation for them to come and visit us.

My passion for our Church ministry is that we will do God’s work in God’s way, for God’s glory. We are committed to making and maturing disciples for the glory of God. I believe that being a Word centered fellowship, being as broad as the scriptures are broad and as narrow as they are narrow, that focuses on people and not programs with a commitment to the priorities of worship, instruction, fellowship, and evangelism as they are found in the first generation Church; we can see the power of God on fresh display in all of our services. We are committed to authentic worship that holds to the premise that God is the only consumer in our services. By exalting the name of our great God and only using means that are in keeping with the right opinion of Him, we strive to attribute glory to Him in everything.

We strive to be a community of grace. Grace is divine provision whereby God provides for His own in such a way that they cannot and therefore should not take the credit. We realize that grace is absolutely necessary for salvation (Romans 5:5, Ephesians 2:8-9), for sanctification (Phillipians 2:13), for service (1 Corinthians 3:10), and for sacrificial giving (2 Corinthians 8: 1-5). As we have received the grace of God, we desire to be a therapeutic community that extends God’s grace to a hurting world around us (2 Corinthians 5:17-6:1). That is the message that we desire to bring to the greater Wilmington area as our

Our motto is Grace from the Word, Grace for the world, Grace for His glory. Each week we see folks from the area come to Grace for the first time, and many of them find that Grace is the place for them to call home. We would love to have you come and experience the Grace of God with us as we anticipate His working in our lives each week as we worship Him together.

Serving Him For Others,

Alan T. E. Benson Is 40:31