PurposeDoctrineCovenantBylaws - Memorial Baptist Church • Middlebury, Vermont

The Purpose, Doctrine, Covenant and By-Laws

Memorial Baptist Church
Middlebury, Vermont

Originally Adopted November 4, 1998
As Revised through February 5, 2006

Sections (see numbered links at bottom of page)

1. Revisions
2. Name, Purpose, Polity
3. Doctrine
4. A Covenant 5. Section I - Membership
6. Section II - Officers and Boards
7. Section III - Duties of Officers
and Governing Boards
8. Section IV - The Pastor
9. Section V - General Practices
10. Section VI - Amendments
11. Internal Controls

Name, Purpose, Polity

NAME

The name of this church shall be Memorial Baptist Church of Middlebury, Vermont.

PURPOSE

We commit ourselves to knowing God and making God known. We will follow Jesus by loving God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, and by loving our neighbors as ourselves.

POLITY

This church is an independent, evangelical congregation with government vested in the body of members who seek to know and do the will of God under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the Bible. This church shall maintain an affiliation with the American Baptist Churches U.S.A. and the American Baptist Churches of Vermont and New Hampshire.

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