Peace Haven Baptist Church: An inclusive fellowship offering a place to worship, to grow, to serve and to experience the unconditional love of God. Church Covenant We as individuals make this covenant with God: Having accepted the giftof God’s forgiveness and grace in each of our lives and being led by the Holy Spirit to mature in our relationship with God, we acknowledge that we are together to be the church of God in Christ. We are here by choice. Through the same grace we received as individuals, God is making us a fellowship to embody and to express the Spirit of Christ. In this fellowship, weare no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female. We are one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28). Peace Haven Baptist affirms the equality and dignity of all persons. Peace Haven Baptist is an inclusive fellowship in Jesus Christ. ·We will gather regularly with the Church to worship God, share the good news, and continually examine its implications for our lives. ·We will study the Bible, meditate, and pray, so that we will more fully experience the presence of God and God’s message for our lives. ·We will also be sensitive to God’s message, as it comes to us from persons, history, the arts, nature, current happenings in the world and other sources. ·We will intentionally give ourselves as Christ’s servants through participation in God’s mission in the world. ·We will try to discover, affirm, and celebrate the gifts God gives to others. ·We will be responsible to God through the creative use of all our income and possessions. We will give systematically to the financial support of our Church’s ministry as led by the Holy Spirit. ·We will seek to know and love one another in this fellowship, and we are willing to be known and loved byone another. With God’s help, and the help of each person in this fellowship, we make this covenant. |