Session 4

Clarity and Boundaries for Members

As a member you can expect:

• The pastor and pastoral council to make you and your spiritual journey a part of their focus in discipleship of Christ. (personal growth)

• Accountability

• Counseling

• Care (practical services and meeting place, both corporately and privately)

• Pastoral duty’s (Life, Death, Celebration, and hardship)

• A place to grow for service to the body of Christ

Members seeking to represent Safe House COG are required to:

• Obey the Canon of Scripture as the inspired word of God.

• Know Jesus Christ as their savor in the full pardon of their sins.

• Walk in the Light (refuse secretive behavior and darkness).

• Abide by the discipline of the Church of God as outlined in scripture and set forth in the minutes of the General Assembly.

• Supporting the local church with attendance and giving

• Be subject to the counsel and admonition of those over you in the Lord.

• Abstain from gambling, tobacco products.

• Abstain from Adultery (including Homosexual expressions)

• Abstain from recreational Alcohol use.

• Abstain from any mood-altering substance other than prescription drugs.

• Contribute their tithe (10%)

(Ministerial opportunities are contingent upon the integrity of the person’s life since receiving salvation, since positional ministry requires a life lived by higher standards, each case will be subjected to a biblical standard for Holiness living, though there is forgiveness and restoration for all that repent. Limitations on the opportunity to serve in ministry may apply. When needed Pastor will consult with the presiding Bishop to reaffirm ministerial opportunities or confirm that an individual case may not qualify to part take in any serving of the body of Christ in official capacity)

By failure to meet the requirements of Membership of the COG, the member in question is expected to stand in the light, confessing their compromise or sin to leadership. Depending on the severity and intensity of violation to the membership commitment the membership may be revoked, and, in some cases, a former member may be excluded.

Where applicable, if Leadership decerns genuine repentance, Leadership will plan for restoration, help, counsel, and encouragement in Love.