A personal testimony of your Salvation in Christ.
Acts 4:12; Rom 10:9
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Your acknowledgement of and obedience to the Order and Officers of the Church: Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers, Elders and Deacons.
Heb 13:17; Eph 4:11; 1 Cor 12:28
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Your presence in the meetings of the Church and abidance in full communion; that is, not to absent yourself more than three times from communion without sufficient reason given for your absence.
Heb 10:25
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Your conformity with the fundamental doctrines of the Church, as well as with the two ordinances, namely baptism by immersion, and the Lord’s Supper.
Rom 6:4, Luke 22:19, 1 Cor 11:24
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That you contribute towards the support of the cause, as taught unto us in the Word of God
Gen 14:20, 28:22, Lev 27:30, 1 Chronicles 29:14, Matt 23:23; Heb 7:8,17
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That you keep the counsels of the Church within the Church.
Matt 7:6
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That you pray for and help every member, remembering that we are joint members in the Body of Christ.
Heb 10:24; 1 Cor 12:25:26 25; 1 Tim 2:1; Gal 6:2
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Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Eph 4:3
