New Members Packet
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To Our New Members, The Eskridge Grove Baptist Church family and I are excited to welcome you as new members in God's church. You have reached a decision to fellowship and identify with a group of Christians who regularly meet at this location. But with membership comes the responsibility to fellowship, to grow, and to serve with and through this body of believers. Therefore, our expectations for you are four-fold. Members are expected to be actively involved in:
The only thing that we at Eskridge Grove Baptist Church command of each member is to LOVE one another as Christ has loved us. And I remind you to "keep pressing towards the mark of the high calling of Christ Jesus". Be Blessed! Sincerely yours in Christ, Pastor Strickland Maddox
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Having been led, as we believe, by the Spirit of God, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of our Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, we do now in the presence of God, angels, and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ. We engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church, in knowledge, holiness, and comfort, to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline and doctrines, to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel through all nations. We also engage to maintain family and secret devotion; to religiously educate our children, to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances, to walk circumspectly in the world, to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements and exemplary in our deportment, to avoid all tattling, backbiting and excessive anger, to abstain from the sale and use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage, and to be zealous in our efforts to advance the Kingdom of our Savior. We further engage to watch over one another with brotherly love, to remember each other in prayer, to aid each other in sickness and distress, to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and courtesy in speech, to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation, and mindful of the rules of our Savior to secure it without delay. We moreover engage that when we remove from this place, we will as soon as possible unite with some other church, where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God's word.
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