Celebration! Church Ottawa Membership Covenant and Application
COVENANT
Having been led by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior, and having been baptized, upon my profession of faith, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, recognizing my call to actively participate in the Body of Christ which is the Universal Church, seeing the expression of that calling in service through the local church, and being in agreement with the statements and strategy of Celebration!, I commit to glorify God and actively pursue the growth of His Kingdom in accordance with the Holy Bible.
Collectively, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we aim to accomplish this by advancing the church in knowledge and holiness, by sustaining the church's worship, ordinances, discipline and doctrine, and by contributing to the church through service and giving: cheerfully, regularly and sacrificially for the spread of the gospel and the support of ministry .
Privately, through the power of the Holy Spirit, seeing the importance of personal spiritual growth, I engage to spend time alone with God regularly, to act and speak in love, to pray, to share the gospel, to live in the world and not of it in an effort to abstain from sin, to support fellow Christians, to seek reconciliation always, according to the standards set by the Bible, to obey godly leaders, to participate in discipleship, attend church faithfully, and generally to conduct myself in accordance to the Bible.
APPLICATION
Understanding the importance of the divinely instituted local church in functioning as the Body of Christ in the World and in completing the growth of the Christian, I commit, upon removing from this place, if at all possible, to seek to unite with another church to continue in the spirit of this covenant.