Pastor Tom Clinkscale

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Baptism is a covenant sign that declares the reality of our membership in the kingdom of God and Christ's body and demands us to live according to kingdom principles and grow in our understanding of them in the local church.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Jesus has delegated authority to the local church to affirm as its members those who trust in Christ and for them to enter into its membership&nbsp;through the ordained covenant sign of Baptism and learning to observe all Christ commanded in it.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The church is a cosmic display of God's glory in His wisdom being revealed by the church being faithful to who she is and how she is to act</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Because prayer is essential to seeking and living in God's will when tempted to do otherwise, we must learn to pray like Jesus.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Because there is a will of God to follow for me, then I need to know what it is and be faithful in following it.</span><br></p>

<p>To die to the flesh is a work of God's grace experienced in the outpouring of His Holy Spirit in the relationships we have in the body of Christ.</p>

<p>To die to the flesh is a work of God's grace experienced in the outpouring of His Holy Spirit in the relationships we have in the body of Christ.<br></p>

<p>Coming alive to life in Christ, having battled flesh desires, requires our thinking to be renewed by setting it, directing it, and resting in it.<br></p>

<p>Our understanding of our salvation in Christ as a work of God’s, shapes our attitudes with others, so our understanding must be that our salvation is a work of God the Father, son, and Holy Spirit and not my work in order to have genuine fellowship as a body of Christ.</p>

<p>Because a heart of forgiveness sets forth in its actions a body of evidence to prove our heart is a forgiven/forgiving one, we must know what it is and what it is not.</p>