BELIEFS & GOVERNANCE

“We hereby covenant and engage … to give up ourselves unto the Lord … to unite together into one body for the public worship of God, and the mutual edification one of another in the fellowship of the Lord Jesus: exhorting, reproving, comforting and watching over each other, for mutual edification; looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of … our Savior Jesus …” (from the Articles of Faith and Government, adopted on Feb. 23, 1809)