Apply for membership

So you are considering membership at SVRBC… Great! Assuming you’ve been through the orientation class, the next step is to complete the following application form, describing your understanding of and commitment to the gospel.

After you’ve submitted the application, follow up with a pastor in person about next steps. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to send one of us an email and ask.

Name

Phone number

Date of birth

Month

Day

Year

Marital status

Do you have children?

What are the names and ages of your children?

The gospel link

What is the gospel (i.e., the good news)?

How did you come to believe the gospel?

Have you been baptized?

Do you want to be baptized?

What were the circumstances of your baptism?

How would you describe your Christian walk?

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Consider your prayer life, Bible reading habits, struggles against temptation, etc.

How do you hope to grow in your Christian walk?

Church information link

What is your relationship to your previous church?

May we contact your previous church?

How could God use SVRBC to help you?

How could God use you to help SVRBC?

Why do you want to become a member of SVRBC?

Cost of discipleship link

Are you willing to be ostracized by your friends and family for the sake of Christ?
Matt. 10:35-37

; Luke 14:26

; John 9:22-23

Are you willing to lose your job for the sake of Christ?
2 Tim. 3:12

; Luke 9:62

; Luke 14:27

Are you willing to be beaten for the sake of Christ?
Matt. 10:17-18

; Acts 16:22-23

; Acts 5:40

Are you willing to go to prison for the sake of Christ?
2 Tim. 1:8

; Rev. 1:9

; Phil. 1:12-14

Are you willing to die for the sake of Christ?
Matt. 16:24-25

; Acts 7:59-60

; Phil. 1:21

Church covenant link

Our membership covenant is our agreement with one another to pursue a holy fellowship. Because those who become members must commit to the following items, those who apply should be prepared to do so. If you have any questions about this covenant, please speak with a pastor.

Are you willing to strive for the advancement of this church in knowledge, holiness, and comfort, promoting its prosperity and spirituality, making it preeminent in your associations?
John 13:14

; Rom. 13:8–10

; 1 Cor. 12:1–12

; Phil. 1:9–11

; Eph. 4:13–16

; 1 Thess. 4:9

; Heb. 12:14

; 1 Pet. 1:14–16

Are you willing not to forsake the assembling of ourselves, but faithfully sustain through both attendance and prayer our public worship of God, while upholding the ordinances, doctrines, and discipline of this church?
Matt. 28:19

; Heb. 10:23–25; 13:7, 17

Are you willing to regularly and cheerfully contribute, according as God has prospered you, to the expenses of this church, and the support of its ministries?
1 Cor. 9:6–14; 16:2

; 2 Cor. 9:7

; 1 Tim. 5:17–18

Are you willing to cultivate private and family worship at home, striving to attain unto the scriptural example for yourself and your family, bringing up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, training them for the service of Christ?
Deut. 6:4–12

; Prov. 22:6

; Eph. 5:22—6:4

; Col. 3:18–20

Are you willing to exercise a Christian care and watchfulness over other members of the church, faithfully warning, exhorting, and admonishing others in love as occasion may require, being slow to take offense and always ready for reconciliation, endeavoring to maintain a scriptural unity others?
Col. 3:8–17

; Heb. 3:12–13; 10:24

Are you willing to, being jealous of the honor of God's name as reflected through this church, walk circumspectly in the world, be equitable in your dealings, faithful in your engagements, exemplary in your deportment, guarding your speech from all sins of the tongue, abstaining from the misuse of all drugs?
Rom. 12:1–2

; Eph. 5:1–13

; James 1:26–27; 3:2–12

; Col. 3:8–10

Are you willing to, upon leaving the membership of this church, as soon as possible, unite with another church of like faith where you can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of the word of God?
Acts 1:15; 2:41–42, 47; 9:26–28

Are you willing to, in all conditions, strive to live to the glory of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light?
1 Cor. 10:31

; Col. 1:12–13

; 1 Pet. 2:9

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