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Myers Park Baptist Church Covenant We, the members of the Myers Park Baptist
Church, are people on a journey of faith. By God's grace we are
experiencing God's love through Jesus Christ and the community of
the faithful.
We are discovering in this experience
our freedom to become new creatures and our responsibility to be
faithful stewards of our lives and of this world.
We will be open to all new light, strengthened by God and each other
in our faith.
We will sustain a critical examination of Scripture,
as interpreters of God's active presence in the world.
We will
accept controversy as a reality of life together and an opportunity
for growth toward maturity.
We covenant to be a community of God's new creation and affirm that we are open to all and
closed to none.
We covenant together to nurture this church as a community of faith
and as an instrument for reconciliation in the world: by worship,
by Christian education, by the dedication of our personal and
material resources, and by all the other ways we express the
significance of our lives with God and one another.
We covenant together to be priests celebrating God's presence
in community and in the world, believing we are participants in
God's kingdom on earth. |