• A Credible Profession of Faith:  We practice regenerate church membership, meaning our membership reflects those who belong to Christ. If you do not yet know Jesus we’d love to talk to you!
• Biblical Baptism:  The covenant sign of baptism is only to be applied to those who profess faith & repentance. We recognize baptism by immersion as the only proper mode of baptism.
• Agreement with our Statement of Faith:  We desire to be unified around the truth of scripture.

We find in the New Testament that a numerical record was kept (Acts 2:37-47). Records were kept of widows (1 Timothy 5:3-16), elections were conducted (Acts 6:1-6), discipline was carried out (Matthew 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; Galatians 6:1), Elders are held accountable for members (Hebrews 13:17), and there was a general awareness of who was committed to the Church (Romans 16:1-16).

In other words, the church was keeping track of who belonged and who didn’t belong.

Today, we live in an age of confusion where there are a miriad of beliefs that go by the name Christian, some authentic others heretical. You can be Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, or Mormon (just to name a few) and claim to be a Christian.   Our desire is to clarify what we believe as a church body so that we might be unified around the truth of scripture.

Membership delcares that you are a born again Christian, made alive by the Spirit of God, and that you agree to place yourself under the spiritual authority of our church leaders.

Membership is not a requirement for salvation, but we highly encourage you to make a committment to a local church.  The book of Hebrews tells us to regularly gathering with other like minded believers for encouragment (Hebrews 3:12-13; Hebrews 10:25).

The pattern in scripture and the early church is to gather one day out of seven to worship our Lord, Christ Jesus.

Membership is not a permanent commitment and can be ended in a number of ways.  Our church constitution lists four ways you may be removed from membership.

• Admission to a church of like faith and practice
• Church discipline
• Written request
• Death