Our Covenant

Having acknowledged Jesus Christ as Lord and Master of our lives, and having put our full dependence in His atoning work on the cross, we joyfully and publicly confess our faith in Him. We rejoice not only in the confidence of our eternal salvation, but in the fact that we have been baptized, by His Spirit, into His Church, and that we have a special relationship one with another as brothers and sisters in God's Family.
Therefore, as a local church - a local fellowship of believers - we are together committed, with one heart and mouth, to glorifying our great God and Savior....
We are committed to glorifying our God as we worship Him through praise, prayer and obedience. We recognize that daily, consistent obedience is as much a part of worship as joyful praise, and together we pledge ourselves to this kind of thinking and this kind of living.
 
We are committed to glorifying our God as we build up one another through love and the Word. We recognize our mutual responsibilities: to love and accept and honor and serve one another, and to encourage and teach and submit to one another, and together we pledge ourselves to this kind of thinking and this kind of living. We recognize that unity and harmony is God's glorious desire for His Church, and we determine, by His help, to maintain the unity of the Spirit. We also recognize the vital importance of the Word of God in all of this, and together we pledge ourselves to first learning and applying it to our own lives, and then, as God works through us, using it in the lives of others.
 
We are committed to glorifying our God as we share the Gospel of Christ with others. We recognize that, as His Church, we are commissioned to proclaim His truth and His gospel to our local community and to the entire world, and together we pledge ourselves to being faithful in this, using every opportunity to both demonstrate and declare the awesomeness of having a personal relationship with the one True God.
Furthermore, in committing ourselves to this local Body of believers, we together pledge our loyalty to the services and programs of Grace, and determine to be enthusiastically supportive in our involvement and attendance.  We determine to give joyfully and regularly, as God prospers us, for the support of the ministry.  We acknowledge our accountability one to another and together pledge our submission in all areas of life and doctrine.  And we recognize the privilege and power of prayer, and together commit ourselves to earnestly and faithfully pray for one another.  Finally, we recognize that although our commitment and devotion to our God must be supreme, it is interwoven with our love and devotion to one to another, and together we pledge ourselves to this kind of thinking and this kind of living.