2022

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The ways that God demonstrates His love toward us are experienced by us in remembering His past love, enjoying His present love, and hoping in His future love.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">God has made sinners alive, raised them from the dead and seated them with Jesus Christ in order that they might, by His overabounding grace, reveal His manifold wisdom before&nbsp;the watching&nbsp;world.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Lord's Supper is a call to celebration and commitment to Christ and His body that directs us to denounce disunity in our attitudes and actions and determine new directions that lead to maintaining unity in the body of Christ.</span><br></p>

<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;">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>