Covenant Membership
Christians are not lone rangers, but covenant members: members of the body of Jesus Christ who has drawn us into His covenant embrace. Covenant Membership, or simply church membership, is faith incarnate: individual faith lived out in the corporate body of Christ. As a body we have different roles, but when one of us hurts, we all hurt (1 Corinthians 12:12). We are not club members, but family members who are accountable to care for one another (Matthew 12:49-50). We have one Spirit, one Father, and one Elder Brother: Jesus Christ. We belong to Him and therefore to one another. Read the information below to find out how to become a member here at Valley Community Church.
Covenant Membership
Introduction
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Article One
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Article Two
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Article Three
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Article Four
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Article Five
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Article Six
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Article Seven
In what we call our Five Distinctives, we explore five historic and global practices that have always made the church distinctive. In the first few centuries, Christians were severely persecuted as they refused to worship Caesar or other gods. Followers of Jesus were considered too narrow, too exclusive, and a threat to the social order. The Church was a contrast community, a strange counterculture that was both offensive and yet attractive to many. What were the practices that made them a benevolent contrast community throughout the world and throughout the centuries? Five faithful practices of love that were born of the Gospel!
Apprenticeship Practices