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The
Inspired Word of God
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Just as each of us has one body with
many members, and these members do not all
have the same function, so in Christ we
who are many form one body, and each
member belongs to all the others.
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Rom
12:4-5
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NIV
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About
Us
Our
Beliefs
James A Garfield,
former President of the United States, is one of the
best-known associated with Christian churches/churches of
Christ. He even served as a "lay preacher." To answer the
many questions he received about the group of believers
with whom he worshiped, he wrote a classic
statement:
- We call ourselves
Christians, or Jesus' disciples.
- We believe in God the
Father.
- We believe that Jesus
is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and our
Savior. We regard the divinity of Christ as the
fundamental truth of the Christian system.
- We believe in the
Holy Spirit, both as to His agency in conversion and
as indwelling in the heart of the
Christian.
- We accept both the
Old and New Testament Scriptures as the inspired Word
of God.
- We believe in the
future punishment of the wicked and the future reward
of the righteous.
- We believe that the
Deity is a prayer hearing and a prayer answering
God.
- We observe the
institution of the Lord's Supper on the Lord's Day. To
this table we neither invite nor debar; we say it is
the Lord's Supper for all of the Lord's
children.
- We plead for the
union of God's people on the Bible and the Bible
alone.
- The Christ is our
only creed.
- We maintain that all
the ordinances should be observed as they were in the
days of the apostles.
This list is adapted from
"What Kind of Church Is This?" by Leroy
Lawson
In the New
Testament the Greek word for "communion," is
koinonia. This term gave expression to the type of
relationship that Christians experienced with God as
revealed in his son Jesus. Koinonia also expressed
the type of relationships the early Christians shared
with one another.
Our Commitment to
Koinonia:
Click
Here to view
"A Test of Love" PDF document.
As a member of Timber Lake
Christian Church I intend to…
- Bring my spiritually
surrendered self to worship, learn, and serve others as
often as possible
- Model the grace God has
given us as a united body seeking - His purpose first,
our leadership’s vision for ministry second, my lost
neighbor’s need third, my brother and sister in
Christ’s good fourth, and my personal preferences in
the area of non essentials last.
- Work with tenacious
excellence expressing grace toward other people’s
ideas
- Refuse to allow
perpetual conflict go unaddressed.
- Communicate with loving
honesty.
- Honor and value those I
follow and those I lead.
- Relentlessly pursue
personal purity and integrity.
- Be my Christian
brothers’ and sisters’ champions.
- Work on my
knees.
Related
Scriptures:
- Rom 12:10 - Be devoted
to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above
yourselves.
- Rom 12:16 - Live in
harmony with one another.
- Rom 13:8 - Let no debt
remain out-standing, except the continuing debt to love
one another.
- Rom 14:13 - Therefore
let us stop passing judgment on one another.
- Rom 15:7-8 - Accept one
another , then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to
bring praise to God.
- Rom 16:16 - Greet one
another with a holy kiss.
- 1 Cor 1:10 - I appeal to
you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
all of you agree with one another so that there may be no
divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united
in mind and thought.
- Gal 5:13 - serve one
another in love.
- Eph 4:2 - Be completely
humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another
in love.
- Eph 4:32 - Be kind and
compassionate to one another , forgiving each other, just
as in Christ God forgave you.
- Eph 5:19-20 - Speak to
one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing
and make music in your heart to the Lord,
- Eph 5:21 - Submit to one
another out of reverence for Christ.
- Col 3:13 - Bear with
each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have
against one another.
- Col 3:16 - Let the word
of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish
one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts
to God.
- Heb 10:24-25 - And let
us consider how we may spur one another on toward love
and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together,
as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage
one another — and all the more as you see the Day
approaching.
- 1 Peter 1:22 - Now that
you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that
you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another
deeply, from the heart.
- 1 Peter 4:9-10 - Offer
hospitality to one another without grumbling.
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