Columbia Baptist Fellowship Covenant

Our personal, honest, hopeful commitment to God and to each other is expressed in the affirmations and pledges of our Covenant. 

WE COVENANT WITH GOD, OUR FATHER:

We accept, O Lord, Your forgiveness for the sins we have committed, and pray that You will stop their harmful effects; we covenant with You to be forgiving persons.

We thank You, O Lord, for touching our hearts and lives with Your healing; we covenant with You to be healers of others.

We thank You, our Father, for making us aware of Your Presence; we covenant with You to watch for, wait upon, and depend on Your help in our daily lives.

We thank You, O Lord, for accepting us as persons, when we are so far from being holy and righteous; we covenant with You, to be persons who accept others, even when they do not measure up to our standards.

We thank You, O Lord, for being interested in our lives; we covenant with You to let Your Son Jesus be our Lord.

We recognize, O Lord, the steadfastness of Your faithfulness to us; we return that commitment and dedicate our lives to You and Your service.

We thank You, O Lord, for breaking some of the sinful bonds on our lives; we covenant with You to be Christian toward those who are not experiencing this freedom.

We thank You, O Lord, for loving us when we do not deserve Your love; we covenant with You to love one another as You have loved us.

WE COVENANT WITH ONE ANOTHER:

Because God has accepted me, I accept you into my life and into my care. I covenant to accept you as you are and hope that we can grow together to be mature children of God.

Because I have experienced the forgiveness of God in my life, I covenant with you as a friend in Christ to forgive you, even when I feel the pain you may cause me.

Because I know God's help and support in my life, I covenant to support you to the best of my abilities, in times of your grief, stress and sickness.

Because we are members of Christ's Body, the Church, I covenant with you to share life and service with you, with all of its joys and sorrows. I covenant to be concerned about you and your family. I promise to defend you as brothers and sisters from those who would deny you their love and respect. I covenant to be honest with you, even when it may be painful to us both.

I covenant to respond when you try to help me. I promise to trust that you act from a concern for me.

I covenant with you that henceforth I will commit my life to be your friend in Jesus Christ, the One who has touched us all and given our lives meaning.

WE COVENANT TOGETHER:

To apply our faith in all aspects of our lives;

To strive for a more perfect society in keeping with the Spirit of God;

To be faithful stewards of our time, influence, abilities, and possessions; to use them wisely and fully;

To assemble ourselves together regularly for worship, study, witness, and fellowship;

To pray for one another and care for one another;

To encounter God daily through reading the Scriptures and prayer; and to be faithful to this fellowship of Christians.