Our main purpose for meeting is found in our name. In Luke 24 it talks of the two disciples who walked unknowingly with Jesus on the road to Emmaus. On the way, Jesus expounded to them the scriptures concerning himself. At the end of their journey, the two disciples invited Jesus into their home to eat. Jesus took bread, blessed it, brake it, and gave it to them. Immediately their eyes were opened and Jesus vanished out of their sight. The two disciples looked at one another and said, " Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us along the way". Our desire is that as a result of our meeting, our hearts would burn within us as we are convicted, encouraged, and edified with the truths we have learned.
We the church, having been led by the Spirit of God to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and on the profession of our faith, 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 this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ.
We recognize that Jesus Christ through His Word, the Holy Bible, is the foundation of the church (Matthew 16:18; 7:24-27; I Corinthians 3:9-11), the called out ones (Ephesians 2:19-22), and that our mission is to go, disciple, baptize, teach, and reproduce (Matthew 28:19-20).
We, recognizing that the family is God’s illustration to the world, do commit, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to fulfill our responsibility; the husband as the head and spiritual leader---as Christ is to the church, the wife submissive as an helpmeet---as the church is to Christ, and the children obeying and honoring their parents (Ephesians 5:24-6:4).
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