Having been led, as we believe by the Holy Spirit of God, to accept as our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whose blood and righteousness alone we trust as the ground of our redemption; and having been buried with Him in baptism into the likeness of His death, and raised in the likeness of His resurrection to walk in newness of life; and, having thus been united to His visible church, we do now most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with God and with one other as one body in Christ.
We solemnly promise and engage that, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, we will love one another as brethren in the Lord; that we will exercise Christian care and watchfulness one for another, bearing one another's burdens and thus fulfilling the law of Christ.
We engage to maintain secret and family devotion, to search the Scriptures with all diligence, and to train up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
We covenant that we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together in the house of the Lord; but, will regularly attend its services unless providentially hindered; that we will pray and labor for its prosperity through its doctrines, its ordinances and its discipline; that we will earnestly and actively endeavor to win souls to our Savior, realizing that apart from Him there is no hope and that He has left us in the world as His "ambassadors," in His Name, to "seek and save the lost."
We covenant that we will regularly and systematically give of our substances, as the Lord prospers us, for the support of an evangelical ministry amongst us, for the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel in the whole world; that we will endeavor to walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our challenges in our dealings, faithful in our engagements and exemplary in our deportment; to remember each other in prayer; to comfort each other in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy and courtesy; to be slow to take offense, ready for reconciliation, and mindful of our Savior, to secure it without delay.
Desiring the Triumph of Christ above all earthy good, and joyfully hoping for His coming again in heavenly glory, we covenant that by the help of His enabling Spirit, we will seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, trusting Him to add unto us all temporal necessities and the fullness of Heavenly grace.
(Adopted April 29, 1940)