- October 18, 2015
- 10:30 AM
Here are commitments Christians and churches could consider making in their heads and hearts, before God, and a watching world. (as printed on the back of the bulletin)
- We will guard the truth of God’s Word, protect God’s people from error, and confront the world when it tries to press us into its mold.
- We will encourage our leaders to teach and preach through the whole Bible, taking in the whole counsel of God.
- We will call all people to faith in Christ as the only way to the Father and the only way to have eternal life AND tell the truth about all sins, but especially the most prevalent in our communities.
- We will speak to all people about the Good News that Jesus died in our place and rose again so that we might be set free from the world and the wrath of god, and be welcomed into the Holy City at the restoration of all things.
- We will treat all Christians as new creations in Christ, reminding each other that our true identity is not based on self-expression but on our union with Christ AND we will extend God’s forgiveness to all those who come in brokenhearted repentance.
- We will strive to be a community that welcomes all those who hate their sin, and struggle against it, even when that struggle involves failures ad setbacks.
- We will seek to love all in our midst, regardless of their particular vices or virtues, by preaching the Bible, recognizing evidences of God’s grace, pointing out behaviors that dishonor the Lord, taking church membership seriously, exercising church discipline, and striving for holiness together, and exulting in christ above all things.