To Connect & Believe

CONNECTION We believe that to be a faith family, we must be as family and join together in worship and fellowship often (Acts 2:46-47 & Hebrews 10:25). Personal interactions whether in worship, praise, prayer, discipleship, fellowship or ministry provide opportunities to strengthen the bond of unity that build up the body of Christ. Each interaction, through the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit, to Offer Christ. That is our goal, to share His love in all we do, to point all to Him.

This community of believers desires everyone to know the love of Jesus Christ and the power of His resurrection that is founded in having a personal salvation experience. Thus, OUR PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE we pray, that out of God’s glorious riches, He strengthen you with His power through the Holy Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith in Him. And we pray that being rooted and established in God’s perfect love, may, through His power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and how long and how high and how deep is the love of Christ, to know His perfect, completing Love that surpasses all knowledge, so you may be filled to all the fullness of God. From Ephesians 3:16-19.

In knowing us, we trust you’ll find a faith family who truly does love each other and others too. We find Pleasant Grove to be a pleasant place for it is founded on God’s Love that indwells us. God tells us in 1 John 4:8, that God IS love. To be love, we must know Him first before we can share His love with others.

BELIEVE The best way to know God is study His Holy Word and be transformed by it through the power of the Holy Spirit. That can be done in Worship and in personal study. In any case, know that God’s Word tells us He is near.

He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; Acts 17:26-27

God is infinite. And in His infinite wisdom and plan, you are here, and perhaps in this time you are seeking Him. Know that He is ready for you to know His love. Seek Him now. Do not delay. We want to join with you in your faith journey. We invited you to connect with us here.

Whether new or old in the faith, alongside Worship and discipleship in a faith family, a Bible reading plan may be of help to you. The Bible ReCap by Tara-Leigh Cobble offers a free guide to read through the Bible chronologically in a one year plan or 3 month New Testament Plan. For new believers, the 3 month plan would be an ideal start. She shares a daily “ReCap” of the day’s reading on YouTube.

History & Doctrine

HISTORY A few years prior Bradley County being founded, Pleasant Grove’s heritage began in 1832, at a campground on the west side of I-75 across from the theatre where a small cemetery is now. From 1832 until 1968, Pleasant Grove was a part of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the 1845 split that formed the MEC-South, Pleasant Grove stayed with the MEC. In 1939, there was a rejoining of the MEC-South to the MEC, and with that merger came the Methodist Protestant Church that had been founded in 1828 which held to Wesleyan doctrine yet was congregational in governance. Then, in 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren joined the MEC, forming the United Methodist Church that we’ve come to know today.

In 2022/2023, in response to the will and unity that we have in the LORD, we began the next chapter, making history as Pleasant Grove Community Church and joining in fellowship with likeminded believers in the Congregational Methodist Church.

Our history has certainly been shaped by the Methodist tradition, but our hope, our faith has always been anchored in Christ.

DOCTRINE Biblical doctrine is founded solely in the Holy Word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16 teaches “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.” “Congregational Methodists are conservative, evangelical Christians in the Wesleyan Arminian tradition. Our faith is grounded in the infallible, inerrant, inspired Word of God. We believe that the scriptures are God’s revelation of Himself to us, as well as the rule of faith, containing all the truth necessary for faith and Christian living.” For further details, see the CMC Beliefs page.