Membership

Church membership is essential to our life together at Lonsdale Community Church.

If a statement of faith expresses what a church believes, a covenant exemplifies how a church will live. As members of one body, we have covenanted together to love, serve, and care for one another.

All new members affirm this covenant when they join the church.

Church Covenant

Since we have been brought by divine grace to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and have received the gift of His Spirit, we humbly make the following covenant with each other.

  • We will maintain the unity of the church by walking in love towards one another, by honoring our brothers and sisters in Christ, and by submitting to the leaders that God has given to us. (John 13:34 | Rom. 12:10 | Heb. 13:17 | Eph. 4:2–3)

  • We will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, nor neglect to pray for ourselves and others. (Heb. 10:24–25 | James 5:16)

  • We will serve in the ministry of the church and will seek to be equipped for the service that God has for us. (1 Peter 4:10–11 | Eph. 4:12)

  • We will exercise a loving care and accountability over each other and faithfully encourage and correct one another as necessary. (Heb. 3:12–14 | Gal. 6:1)

  • We will participate in each other's joys, and endeavor with tenderness and sympathy to bear each other's burdens and sorrows. (Rom. 12:15 | Rom. 15:1 | Gal. 6:2)

  • We will earnestly endeavor to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and by pure and loving example to seek the salvation of our family and friends. (Deut. 6:4–7 | Eph. 6:4)

  • We will, by God's grace, walk in a manner worthy of the gospel, denying ungodliness and every worldly lust as we seek to live a holy life. (Phil. 1:27 | Titus 2:11–13 | 1 Peter 2:11–12)

  • We will work together for the continuance of a faithful evangelical ministry in this church. We will contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expense of the church, the relief of the poor and the spread of the gospel in the world. (1 Cor. 15:58 | 2 Cor. 9:11–12 | Rom. 1:8)

  • We will, when we move from this place, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God's Word. (Phil. 1:27 | Heb. 10:24–25)