Our Covenant

As believers in Jesus Christ, members of the universal Church (1 Cor. 12:13) and affiliates of the local fellowship gathered at Grace Community Church in Detroit, Michigan, we commit ourselves to the threefold task of sharing the saving message of the Cross of Christ with the unbelieving world, while discipling and bring to maturity all who embrace its message by faith and thankfully recognizing the sustaining power and grace of God who has brought us this far. (Matt. 28:19-20; Col. 1:27-28; 1 Sam. 7:12). 

We pledge to work diligently toward the fulfillment of these goals, using any Biblically sound methodology, including a lifestyle that is fully pleasing to the Lord (Col. 1:10, 4:5), a bold and accurate verbal testimony as God would grant the opportunity (1 Peter 3:15-16), the exercise of spiritual gifts (1 Cor. 12:1-31) and the manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-26) in the unified and loving atmosphere of the body of Christ (Eph. 4:1-16).

We fully understand and embrace the truth, that the strength for these endeavors and the fruit that is the result of their exercise, comes not from human flesh but from the God who grants all increase. (1 Cor. 3:7). His Son who is the Head and the nourisher of the church (Eph. 4:15-16), and the indwelling, life-giving, Spirit who raised Jesus Christ from the dead (Rom. 8:11). 

We now commit to the exercise of this Biblical covenant of ministry, in conjunction with the leadership of this assembly (Heb. 13:17; 1 Peter 5:1-4), as God gives us the grace to do so until the glorious return of His Son (1 Thess. 4:13-5:8).