A Membership Covenant

Part of our team's desire is to call our church's members to a higher standard of commitment to God and His church. Out of that desire, we have created the following draft of a membership covenant:

By God’s grace I have, by faith, been made new in Jesus Christ. Having been baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, I now commit myself to join with others as members of Calvary Church.

Together we will strive to bring glory to God by submitting our wills and lives to the authority of Jesus, as revealed to us in God’ s Word.

I will be devoted to love for the Body, partnering with other members to be discipled and to disciple one another. I will regularly pray for and with others. I will pursue peace and unity with others by speaking encouraging, uplifting words and shunning gossip and divisive speech.

In essential beliefs, we will be united:

• The Bible is God’ s trustworthy message for ALL people.

• Jesus is the ONLY way of salvation.

• Everyone in the world needs to hear God’ s story.

• We pledge to be supportive of one another and not to divide over the teaching of our expanded doctrinal statement.

Together with other members, I will serve others joyfully; sacrificing the resources God has blessed me with, in meeting their spiritual and material needs.

I will live above reproach in the world, pursuing a life of integrity, purity and demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit in my life.

I will seek every opportunity to impact the world with the Gospel by boldly inviting people into a relationship with Christ and by generously meeting the needs of those around me.