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Church Covenant
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Having given ourselves to God, we now give ourselves to His church and covenant with it and with each other, also with God:
1. That we will forsake all unrighteousness, even the appearance
of evil. We will abstain from all questionable pursuits and
pleasures; we will forego all hurtful habits; we will avoid
all evil associations; and we will touch not, taste not,
handle not, any unclean thing.
2. That we will follow
earnestly after righteousness and true holiness in the fear
and love of God. We will seek first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness, trusting that all needful and helpful
things will be added to us; we will seek entire consecration
to God; we will live a life of prayer; we will seek the
constant abiding of the Divine Life within us; and we will be
satisfied only when we have evidence that we please God and
are accepted of Him.
3. That we will faithfully improve all the means of Grace. We
will attend and support the services of the church, the
preaching, the social services, the business meetings; we
will contribute freely of our means for the advancement of
the Gospel; and we will cooperate with our brethren in every
enterprise having for its end the glory of God and the
salvation of men.
4. That we will be Christ-like in our deportment. We will be
tender and affectionate toward each other, we will be careful
of each other’s reputation, thinking no evil and backbiting
not with our tongues; we will return good for evil; we will
be just and honest, truthful and honorable in all our
dealings; we will do unto others as we would be done by; we
will be meek, loving and forgiving as we desire and hope to
be forgiven.
5. That we will be faithful, Christian workers. We will do
whatever Christian work comes to hand, shunning no cross,
shirking no duty; we will even seek opportunities to do good,
glorify God and save souls; we will study to win our associates,
our neighbors, our families, all whom we may influence, to become
Christians; we will count it more than our meat and our drink,
more than all things else, to do the will of our Father in
Heaven, to lead souls from sin and death, and lead them to God
and heaven.