COVENANT

• We covenant together as a gospel community to believe and trust the truths, which are articulated above.
• We covenant together to participate in corporate worship by faithfully attending the corporate assemblies of this congregation.
• We covenant together to demonstrate Christian charity and benevolence to other members of Grace Bible Church and to the rest of our central Texas community.
• We covenant together to commit ourselves wholly to the catholic (i.e. universal) church by means of prayer, financial assistance and other forms of service.
• We covenant together that upon moving from this location, we will as soon as possible find another gospel-centered community to which we may commit our family and ourselves.
• We covenant together to regularly and fervently pray for the community of which we are a part and the leadership of this community.
• We covenant together to shepherd all who by divine providence have been placed under our care to the mercy seat of our God, Jesus Christ our Lord.
• We covenant together to weep with those who weep in the community and rejoice with those who rejoice.
• We covenant together to support our gospel-community through the means of financial offerings, given with proper prudence and gospel joy.
• We covenant together to live faithfully in the world as ambassadors of Jesus Christ by abstaining from the stains of worldliness and pursuing a life of faith for the glory of God.
• We covenant together in gospel community to call other members and/or regular attendees of this assembly to repentance if anyone strays from affirming these glorious gospel truths and/or begins to live in a way contrary to godliness.

May God be pleased to honor his holy name in this his holy assembly. Amen.

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