Membership Matters
Candidates for adult membership will:
- Give evidence of a genuine experience of regeneration through faith in and acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior;
- Be baptized by immersion after being born-again;
- Read our church covenant (see below),
- Do you have the freedom to agree to share in this covenant with us?
- Read through our Articles of Faith and Constitution,
- Can you wholeheartedly support the doctrinal positions of the church in word and deed?
- Will you be faithful to the church?
- Complete a membership class (First Class) before they will be considered by the church for membership.
Church membership is approved by a majority vote of the congregation during regularly scheduled business meetings. Candidates are notified in writing when their membership has been approved by the church. In order to facilitate the interview and application process, BBC uses a simple questionnaire (pdf/100kb) to guide applicants through becoming part of the church.
Follow these steps to become an adult member of the church: Membership Steps (pdf/100kb).
A Covenant for the Twenty-first Century
As a bond of unity among us, Berean Baptist Church accepts for its members the following covenant:
Having been led by the Holy Spirit to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and upon our profession of our faith in Him, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we do now solemnly and joyfully enter into this covenant with one another as one body in Christ.
We fully realize that the strength to uphold this covenant comes from the grace of God our Father, the shed blood of God the Son, and the power of the indwelling of God the Holy Spirit.
We promise to actively pursue personal holiness; to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church's spiritual growth and unity; to faithfully abide by the doctrines and behaviors outlined in this church's Articles of Faith; and to give cheerfully of our time, talents, and finances for the support of this ministry and its missionaries.
We further promise to faithfully attend the church's worship services, to maintain personal spiritual disciplines; to teach our children the Word of God; to share the gospel with our relatives and acquaintances; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements; and to avoid all gossip. We promise that we will love and pray for each other and in times of distress help one another.
We promise to endeavor to obey the commandments of our Lord Jesus and to abstain from anything that would cause our fellow brother or sister in Christ to stumble or that will bring reproach to the name of Jesus Christ.
We further realize that if we should fail to live up to the promises we have made, our brothers and sisters in Christ will always strive for our reconciliation and spiritual restoration. However, if we partake in a sustained and unrepentant violation of an Article of Faith, we will be brought under church discipline in accordance with the Church Constitution.
We make this covenant with each other for the express purpose of glorifying God as the visible representation of the body of Christ.
Candidates must meet the constitutional requirements for church membership and complete BBC's membership class before they will be presented before the church by the pastor.
Downloads
 Potential members should thoroughly review the BBC Covenant, Articles of Faith, and Constitution before they present themselves as members; students may unite with the church as student members, provided Christ is their Savior and they have been baptized.
First Class
Click Here to learn more about First Class.
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