Open Church Covenant

Church Covenant

Having, as we trust, been brought by God’s grace to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and to give up ourselves to Him, and having been baptized as believers in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, we do now, relying on His gracious help, solemnly and joyfully confirm our covenant with one another as one body in Christ. 

We commit to live under the authority of the Bible as individual Christians and together as a church. 

We commit ourselves to the Lord’s mission for His Church, which is to go and make disciples of all the nations and, specifically, to labor side-by-side in this mission as a local church. (Matt. 28:18-20; 1 Cor. 12:1-31; Phil 1:27-28; 1 Pet. 5:1-5; 1 Thess. 5:12-13; Heb. 13:17)

We commit to work together to promote a faithful biblical ministry in this church by sustaining its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines, and to support and strengthen other like-minded churches. (Acts 20:27; 1 Cor. 11:17-34; 14:12, 26; Col. 3:16; 1