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:

1. We call ourselves Christians, or Jesus' disciples.
2. We believe in God the Father.
3. 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.
4. We believe in the Holy Spirit, both as to His agency in conversion and as indwelling in the heart of the Christian.
5. We accept both the Old and New Testament Scriptures as the inspired Word of God.
6. We believe in the future punishment of the wicked and the future reward of the righteous.
7. We believe that the Deity is a prayer hearing and a prayer answering God.
8. 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.
9. We plead for the union of God's people on the Bible and the Bible alone.
10. The Christ is our only creed.
11. We maintain that all the ordinances should be observed as they were in the days of the apostles.

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.

• 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.