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.