Covenant
As a Gospel people and Baptist Christians, we covenant together before God and each other and bear witness to the world.
Creating and redeeming God, we give you thanks and praise. Your covenant of grace was made for our salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord. We come to covenant with You and with our companions in discipleship:
Creating and redeeming God, we give you thanks and praise. Your covenant of grace was made for our salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord. We come to covenant with You and with our companions in discipleship:
To worship You, O God, as the Source of our lives and our salvation and our hope;
To watch over each other and to walk together before You in ways consistent with the biblical witness and the guidance of the Holy Spirit;
To watch over each other and to walk together before You in ways consistent with the biblical witness and the guidance of the Holy Spirit;
To be bound together in fellowship, and to work together in the unity of the Spirit for the sake of God's mission;
To maintain a spirit of openness and acceptance of all persons--demonstrating mutual respect and encouraging in one another the development and use of spiritual gifts in service;
To care for, nurture and build up all members of this body to grow in Christ-likeness to the glory of God;
To this end we commit our lives--our time, our treasure and our talent.
To maintain a spirit of openness and acceptance of all persons--demonstrating mutual respect and encouraging in one another the development and use of spiritual gifts in service;
To care for, nurture and build up all members of this body to grow in Christ-likeness to the glory of God;
To this end we commit our lives--our time, our treasure and our talent.
As a family of faith ministering at the corner of Boulevard and the world and in partnership with other members of the body of Christ, we commit all that we have and all that we are to share God's message of love with all people.
Pour Your Spirit on us, O God. It is our duty and delight to keep covenant with You and one another. We present our lives as an offering of love to the glory of God--Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

