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What is a Congregational Church by Rev. Karl Schimpf.
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Congregational church is a community of God’s faithful people
gathered in a particular place for worship, outreach, service, and
spiritual growth, guided by Christian principles found in the Bible.
It is an autonomous fellowship of the Lord’s free people, made up
of independent thinkers, bound together by a covenant
with God and each other who responsibly
seek to identify and
translate the will of God into both corporate and personal action.
It is a religious heritage built on the foundation of our Pilgrim
parents, who came to this country in 1620, and who, on that ship
called Mayflower, wrote the first document in the history of
humankind which put the government of a country into the hands of
the people. Because of them, we seek to walk by faith on the
pilgrimage of life, guided by that same sense of the Living God in
our midst, “where two or three are gathered in [Jesus’] name”
(Matthew 18:20, NRSV).
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From
Article IV of our church’s Constitution:
Each person
desiring to become a member of this church shall declare and thereby
own the following Covenant of the North Shore Congregational Church:
“I
confess my love for God, for Jesus Christ, and for my fellow men and
women. I hereby
covenant to live in the fellowship of the Gospel, to walk in the
ways of the Lord—known and to be made known to me—to share in
the worship and work of the Church, to cooperate with it in all good
enterprises, and to promote its service, its maintenance, its
purity, and its peace.”
Get
the full NSCC Constitution and By-Laws.
Get the list of Officers and Board Members for 2007-2008.
Stephen Ministry: Our church is actively
involved with Stephen Ministry and we have commissioned 17 Stephen
Ministers to date.
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