to a local body of believers for the purpose of mutual edification, biblical accountability, and unified witness. The moment someone believes the gospel they become a member of the body of Christ. In that sense, every believer is a member of the universal church. However, we believe every Christian should also be a member of a local body of believers. Joining and participating in the local church is the privilege and calling of every Christian. It is in the context of the local church believers are enabled to live out the commands, expectations, and realities set forth in the New Testament. 

Members at Glorious Grace Church profess faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, follow Him in believer’s baptism, submit to the spiritual authority of the Pastors who bear the responsibility of caring for their souls, affirm the core beliefs of Glorious Grace Church, and are committed to the core purpose of the church – to grow in knowledge of God’s revealed truth and to live worthy of that truth. 

Members demonstrate their commitment to growing in knowledge of God’s revealed truth by submitting to the Word of God as the ultimate and final authority on all matters of faith and practice, by letting the Word of God dictate what is moral and right, not man’s wisdom, the world, or what is deemed acceptable by culture, by gathering regularly with the church to hear the Word of God taught, and by engaging regularly in personal and group Bible studies. 

Members demonstrate their commitment to living worthy with other believers by using our gifts to build up the body, by maintaining unity by bearing with one another in love, by speaking truth to one another to encourage, exhort, and admonish on another, by spending time with one another in order to grow in real relationship with each other, by praying for one another, and by sharing the financial burdens of the church through sacrificial giving. 

Members demonstrate their commitment to living worthy before the world by undergoing suffering and, if necessary, loss of rights without retaliation, by prioritizing God’s kingdom, not political or financial issues that detract from the gospel, and by seeking to commend the gospel to the world through word and deed.