Covenant Membership and Baptism

Covenant Membership: We’re so happy you are considering Grace Church to be the place you want to belong. Our Covenant Membership Class is the place to go to hear about what we believe God is doing in the world, what He is doing here at Grace Church, and it also provides us an opportunity to get to know you and your story.

Baptism: Baptism is intended only for those who have professed faith in Jesus Christ and can give sufficient testimony to the basics of Christian beliefs. We baptize by immersion as it best symbolizes the reality to which baptism points—our death and resurrection in Christ. If you have not been baptized following your salvation, we ask you to take this step upon becoming a Covenant Member of Grace Church. To help prepare you, we offer a Baptism Class. The class covers the biblical significance of baptism, frequently asked questions and gives you an opportunity to share your testimony.

If you would like to know more information about membership or baptism, or would like to know when the next Covenant Membership Class or Baptism Class is available, simply reach out to info@gracechurchinfo.net.

Our Covenant (As affirmed by its members):

We affirm that GOD, by the gospel, has drawn us to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and through him has forgiven our sins, adopted us as his children, and given us his Spirit. In grateful praise for God’s redeeming grace, we solemnly and joyfully enter into (renew) our covenant with one another to live and serve in fellowship as Christians in this community.

We will walk together in Christian love, as brothers and sisters of God’s household, by caring for each other, watching over each other, admonishing each other, and graciously restoring each other when we stumble.

We will hold marriage in honor according to God’s design by living in complete fidelity if married and by living in complete chastity if single.

We will strive to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and, by a pure and loving example and wise words, seek the salvation of our family and friends.

We will endeavor to maintain corporate, personal, and family worship, and will not neglect to pray for ourselves and for others.

We will strive to live carefully in the world—to be just in our dealings, faithful in our commitments, exemplary in our behavior, and wise in our counsel—knowing that as we have been voluntarily buried in baptism and raised again from the symbolic grave, we have a special responsibility to lead a new and holy life.

We will work together to maintain a faithful gospel ministry in this church, by participating in its worship, programs, discipline, and doctrines.

We will contribute cheerfully and regularly to the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations.

And, if we move from this place, we will as soon as possible unite with some other gospel-centered church where we can live out the principles of God’s word and the spirit of this covenant.

As we seek to fulfill this covenant, May the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip [us] with everything good that [we] may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13.20–21)