Covenant is a broad based promise and is firmly rooted in the Bible. God makes a covenant with Noah and his family that they will be spared in the great flood. God makes a covenant with Abraham and his family that they will be God’s people and that he (Yahweh) will be their God. God continues the covenant with Moses and remembers Israel and brings them out of bondage into freedom. Jesus proclaims that he is the sign of the new covenant.
Covenant demands mutual respect, regardless of status, behavior or achievement. Covenant is based on God’s grace and is built upon love. Should one partner in the covenant fail in some way, the other remains obligated to the covenant. Covenant is serious and never to be entered into lightly. Covenants are made prayerfully and require humility, patience, compassion and justice. Covenant allows us to agree to disagree and remain in relationship.
At Way of Grace we consider ourselves participants in a covenantal relationship. Our covenant makes a wide path to discipleship and makes room to share the full riches of communion. We enter into covenant to support each other on a journey of faith. We re-affirm our covenant annually.
The Way of Grace Fellowship Covenant
We are sojourners on this earth who seek to know and serve God, the Holy Mystery, that is in all and above all and creator of all. We seek to follow in the way of Jesus Christ, whose saving work in the world is revealed to us in scripture and through our relationships with the Creator, with each other and with the world.
We have come together to share our journeys, to mutually support each other, and to join in common ministry that seeks to help make our world a place of greater kindness, mercy and justice. We seek to be inclusive and hospitable to all people regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, socio-economic status, marital status, or sexual orientation, or gender identity/expression. We recognize that we are all sinful and we seek to refrain from judging others overtly or covertly. We understand that our common ministry does not require that we agree on all matters of faith and of the heart. We understand that we are all called to ministry and mission and to serve the world beyond this Fellowship. As participants we promise to be supportive of each other on our journeys, to study, to pray and to worship regularly and to support mission and ministry with our gifts of time, talent and treasures. Next Page
