COVENANT OF MEMBERSHIP

By the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we covenant:

• To walk  together in Christian love;

• To exercise  Christian care and watchfulness over one another;

• To pray  with and for one another,sharing our burdens, sorrows and joys;

• To be thoughtful  and courteous to one another, to be slow to take offense, and to be quick to forgive and to seek forgiveness;

• To guard  the spiritual and scriptural purity, peace and prosperity of the Church and its growth in scriptural knowledge and godliness

• To assist,  as the Lord enables, in the work of the Church, and to promote its usefulness as a witness to the saving grace of God in Christ Jesus;

• To contribute,  as the Lord directs, to the financial support of the Church, the relief of the needy, and the evangelization of all peoples;

• To love  and to pray for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ;

• To engage  regularly in personal Bible reading and prayer, and to establish family devotions where possible;

• To bring up  such children as may be entrusted to our care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;

• To walk  circumspectly in the world, to provide things honest in the sight of all men, to be faithful in engagements and exemplary in deportment, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts;

• To endeavor  by example, by work and by prayer to win others to an acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.