Covenant Membership

We believe in covenant membership because our God is a covenant God. A covenant is like a treaty; it established the terms of relationship between two parties. There were covenants in the Old Testament between God and man (Noah after the flood), and between man and man (Jacob and Laban, marriage covenant). The New Covenant, or testament, is pictured in Hebrews 8:6-13. We believe a covenant is the most suitable vehicle in our culture for defining membership in the church.