The Church Covenant
        
      
    
    

      
Having been lead as  we believe, by the Holy Spirit of God to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our  Savior, and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name  of the father and of the son and of the Holy Ghost, we do now, in the  presence of God and Angels most solemnly and joyfully enter into Covenant  with one another as one body in Christ.
    
    

      
We engage therefore  by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian love;
        

          
To strive for the  advancement of this church in knowledge, holiness and comfort;
        
        
To promote prosperity  and spirituality;
        

          
To sustain its  worship, ordinance, discipline and doctrines;
        
        
To give it sacred  preeminence over all institutions of human origins;
        

          
To contribute  cheerfully and regularly to the support of the Ministry, the expenses of the  Church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel through all  nations;
        
        
We all engage to  maintain family and secret devotion;
        

          
To religiously  educate our children;
        
        
To seek the salvation  of our kindred and acquaintances;
        

          
To walk circumspectly  in the world;
        
        
To be just in our  dealings, faithful in our engagements and exemplary in our deportment;
        

          
To avoid all  tattling, backbiting and excessive anger;
        
        
To abstain from the  sale and use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage and to be zealous in our  efforts to advance the Kingdom of our Savior;
        

          
We further to engage  to watch over one another in brotherly and sisterly love;
        
        
To remember each  other in prayer;
        

          
To aid each other in  sickness and distress;
        
        
To cultivate  Christian sympathy in feeling and courtesy of speech;
        

          
To be slow to take  offense, but always ready for reconciliation and mindful of the rules of our  Savior to seek it without delay;
        
        
We moreover engage  that when we remove from this place, we will as soon as possible unite with  some other Church, where we can carry out the spirit of the Covenant and the  principles of God’s word;
        

          
Now the God of peace,  who brought again from the dead, our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the  sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every  good work to do His will working in you which is well pleasing in His sight,  through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory, forever and ever. AMEN