| Thankful for God's abundant goodness and His great gift of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and the gift of the Holy Spirit, His fruit and His filling of us and His gifts to us; |
| We covenant to be a people and a place of Christ-like love. |
| We covenant to be a place where Christians are built up and equipped to maturity: as members of the Body of Christ, as members of an individual family, as members of a community. |
| We covenant to be a people engaged in individual and corporate ministry by our service and words, both in our immediate community and around the world. |
| We see our ultimate authority to be God, as revealed in and through Jesus Christ, as recorded in the scriptures, and reinforced by the illumination of the Holy Spirit. |
| We acknowledge the fact of grace, that each one of us is a co-worker with God according as He has given to each one of us our individual measure of His boundless grace. |
| We recognize the authority of Christ, Head of His Church, as being expressed first through our congregation of membership, then our elected leaders. |
| Realizing that the success of the Church depends upon the
consecration of its individual members, we covenant together
to attend the services of the Church and contribute according to our
means for its support, to labor together to maintain its peace and
harmony, and, as far as possible, in every way to promote its temporal
and spiritual welfare.
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