Date: 02/15/2009
Series: Being the Church
Sermon: Defense of an Old-Fashioned Idea
Text: Acts 4:32-33
I stumbled across ARTICLE V of our church Constitution titled CHURCH COVENANT.
Did you even know we have a Church Covenant?
My friends, I have been in this church coming up on six years as of July. NEVER ONCE have we read this covenant together as a body. NEVER ONCE have we asked anyone to consider or affirm this as part of attaining church membership. NEVER ONCE have we referred to it as we evaluate our corporate life together.
It is glued inside the back cover of most of our hymnals, but we never read it, never use it, never refer to it. It is an entire article of our church constitution, however it might as well not exist because we utterly neglect and ignore it.
At this juncture, we need to do one of two things: