Covenant of Fellowship
(1) Having been led by God the Holy Spirit to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and Lord, and
(2) Desiring to unite in the worship, fellowship, service, and testimony of that portion of Christ’s spiritual body known as Meadow Valley Community Church, and
(3) Having read the statement of doctrine of the church, and understanding it to be the basis of its belief and teaching, I do hereby express my desire to enter into the following covenant with others of Meadow Valley Community Church.
By the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit, I covenant:
(1) To walk together in Christian love;
(2) To exercise Christian care and watchfulness over one another;
(3) To pray with and for one another, sharing our burdens, sorrows and joys;
(4) To be thoughtful and courteous to one another, to be slow to take offense, and to be quick to forgive and to seek forgiveness;
(5) To guard the spiritual and scriptural purity, peace and prosperity of the church and its growth in scriptural knowledge and godliness;
(6) To assist, as the Lord enables, in the work of the church, and to promote its usefulness as a witness to the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ;
(7) To contribute, as the Lord directs, to the financial support of the church for the relief of the needy, and the evangelization of all peoples;
(8) To love and to pray for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ;
(9) To engage regularly in personal Bible reading and prayer, and to establish family devotions where possible;
(10) To bring up such children as may be entrusted to our care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;
(11) To walk circumspectly in the world, to provide things honest in the sight of all men, to be faithful in engagements, exemplary in deportment, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts;
(12) To endeavor by example, by word, and by prayer to win others to an acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
(2) Desiring to unite in the worship, fellowship, service, and testimony of that portion of Christ’s spiritual body known as Meadow Valley Community Church, and
(3) Having read the statement of doctrine of the church, and understanding it to be the basis of its belief and teaching, I do hereby express my desire to enter into the following covenant with others of Meadow Valley Community Church.
By the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit, I covenant:
(1) To walk together in Christian love;
(2) To exercise Christian care and watchfulness over one another;
(3) To pray with and for one another, sharing our burdens, sorrows and joys;
(4) To be thoughtful and courteous to one another, to be slow to take offense, and to be quick to forgive and to seek forgiveness;
(5) To guard the spiritual and scriptural purity, peace and prosperity of the church and its growth in scriptural knowledge and godliness;
(6) To assist, as the Lord enables, in the work of the church, and to promote its usefulness as a witness to the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ;
(7) To contribute, as the Lord directs, to the financial support of the church for the relief of the needy, and the evangelization of all peoples;
(8) To love and to pray for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ;
(9) To engage regularly in personal Bible reading and prayer, and to establish family devotions where possible;
(10) To bring up such children as may be entrusted to our care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;
(11) To walk circumspectly in the world, to provide things honest in the sight of all men, to be faithful in engagements, exemplary in deportment, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts;
(12) To endeavor by example, by word, and by prayer to win others to an acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.