MEMBER’S COVENANT PROMISE:
Having confessed to being a baptized Christian (or intending to “go public” with my faith and get baptized at the next Baptism Sunday), being in full alignment with Garden City’s mission, core values/behaviors, doctrine, and philosophy of ministry; and having studied the Membership Handbook, with the help of the Holy Spirit, I covenant:
To Take Ownership of Our Mission & Play My Part in Advancing Our Mission:
“MAKING DISCIPLES TO IMPACT OUR CITY FOR JESUS”
To The Gospel:
• I will enjoy grace and find my identity in Jesus’ work for me, not my work for him.
• I will follow and walk closely with Jesus, knowing that Jesus has adventurous next steps for me to take with him. I will listen to God and obey God, often asking myself two questions: What is God saying to me? What’s my next step? I will repent of my tendency to follow inferior “gods.”
• I will grow my relationship with God through regularly being present to God, listening to God (reading God’s Word), and talking to God in prayer.
To Community:
• I will live life in community rather than in isolation. I will gather with my church family on Sundays, in Life Groups, and in friendships. I will belong to this community and help build and bring people into this community.
• I will preserve unity in the church and follow biblical procedures of peacemaking when conflict arises. I will pray for our church’s leaders, follow our church’s leaders, and submit myself to church discipline if the need should ever arise.
• I will have friendly relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ from other churches, but I will not hold membership to another church or consistently attend, serve, or lead in another church family.
To Vocation:
• I will use my unique gifts and calling to help other people flourish, impact our city, and impact eternity. I will enjoy relationships with non-Christian friends who I’m seeking to know, love, disciple, and bring into our community.
• I will give generously, regularly, and cheerfully to support the mission of Garden City.
• I will have fun! It’s fun to be a Christian.
I will take responsibility to notify the Garden City Church leadership if at any time I can no longer commit to this covenant, or if I have any concerns regarding Garden City Church.
"For just as the body is one and has many members…all the members of the body, though many, are one body. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."
(1 Cor. 12:12, 27)