Church Covenant

Church Covenant

*We covenant together as a church to believe, trust, and seek to live consistently with the truths which are articulated in the GBC Statement of Faith.
*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 universal church by means of prayer, financial assistance and other forms of service.
*We covenant together to regularly and fervently pray for this church and its leadership.
*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 and rejoice with those who rejoice.
*We covenant together to support our church community through the means of financial offerings, given with proper prudence and gospel joy, and submission to the leadership.
*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 and repentance for the glory of God.
"We covenant together to call other members 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, and to receive such a call for repentance ourselves, should the need ever arise.
*We covenant together that upon moving from this location, we will as soon as possible find another gospel-centered church to which we may commit our family and ourselves.

May God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit be pleased to honor his holy name in this his holy assembly. Amen.