RULE OF BELIEF
- A personal testimony of your salvation in Christ (Acts 4:12), Rom. 10:9)
- Your acknowledgement of and obedience to the Order and Officers of the Church: Apostles, Elders, Deacons, and Deaconesses (Heb. 13:17; Eph. 4:11; I Cor. 12:23)
- Your presence in the meetings of the Church and abiding in full communion; that is, not to absent yourself more than three times from Communion without sufficient reason given for your absence (Heb.10:25)
- Your conformity with the Fundamental Doctrines of the Church as well as with the two ordinances, namely, Baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper (II John1:9; Rom. 6:17; 6:4; Luke 22:19; I Cor. 11:24)
- That you contribute towards the support of the works of the Church as taught unto us in the word of God (Gen. 14:20; 28:22; Lev. 27:30; I Chro. 29:14; I Cor. 16:1-2, Matt. 23:23, Heb. 7:8-17)
- That you keep the counsel of the Church within the Church (Matt. 7:6)
- That you pray for and help every member, remembering that we are joint members in the Body of Christ (I Cor. 12:25-26, I Tim. 2:1, Gal. 6:2)
- Endeavoring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph. 4:3)