United
American Free Will Baptist Conference, Inc.
Church Covenant
Having given ourselves through Jesus Christ, and adopted
the preceding articles as our confession of faith, we now give
ourselves to each other by the will of God, and agree to the
following Church Covenant:
- We solemnly agree before God, that we will strive, by His
assisting grace, to exemplify our profession by a corresponding
practice. We solemnly agree, as members of the church and as
Christians to watch over each other in love for mutual upbuilding
in Gospel faith, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit
in the bond of peace, to be careful of each others reputation,
to confess our faults one to another, to strengthen the feeble
and kindly admonish the erring, and to labor together for the
building up of the church and the denomination, and the salvation
of sinners.
- We promise that we will faithfully and constantly maintain
secret and family prayer, and religiously instruct those under
our care.
- We solemnly agree to use our influence to sustain the regular
public worship of God, contributing according to our ability
and circumstances for the support of our ministry and other church
expenses among us; that we will be benevolent to the needy, especially
to the poor of our own church.
- We promise that, so far as we shall be able, we will attend
public worship, the social meeting to the church, and report
ourselves regularly at the quarterly conferences, and that we
will walk in all the ordinances of the Lords house.
- We solemnly agree that we will abstain from all vain amusements
and sinful conformity of the world; that we will not traffic
in, use, nor furnish to others, intoxicating drinks as a beverage,
and that we will sustain the benevolent enterprises of our denomination
and the church, as missions education, Sabbath schools, moral
reforms, and all others which tend to the glory of God and the
welfare of man.
And may the God of peace sanctify us holy, and preserve us
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we may
join the glorified around the throne of God in ascribing blessings,
honor, power and glory to Him that sitteth on the throne and
unto the precious Lamb.
Forever Amen.
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