Sacred Journey Church Covenant Membership

What is covenant membership?

A covenant member of Sacred Journey is someone who has assimilated into our family through community groups, and commits to discipleship, service and prayer as a member of our local family expression. We serve a God who relates to us through covenants, we also seek to respond to God and each other through covenants in respect to his church.

We hold this covenant membership process in high regard, as it is our commitment to be faithful stewards over the local flock entrusted to us. When you embark into covenant membership, the leaders of Sacred Journey Church are committing to your discipleship. Below you will find out how this process looks.

The Process

At Sacred Journey Church, community groups are essential to the life of our church family. As such, they play a key role in our covenant membership process. If you are not currently in a group, please visit http://sjchurch.org/city to find one in your area.

If you are actively participating in a community group, please inform your group leader of your interest in membership, as they will begin discussion with the elders and will ultimately become your “sponsor” into the local family of Sacred Journey Church.

The prerequisites of covenant membership are that you have been baptized, are an active participant in a community group, and that you have learned of our key practices. Although it is fairly simple to become a member, membership is only the beginning to a life of repentant discipleship.

As a covenant member, your community group leader becomes your front-line of discipleship. The community group leader, under the authority and guidance of the elders, is committing to love, serve, pray for, instruct, council and exhort you in a way that edifies and equips your life and ministry.

The Commitments

Your covenant membership will be a commitment to begin a discipleship process that will take you through Sacred Journey’s three key training components: Gospel Literacy, Gospel Identity, and Gospel Disciplines. These are teaching sessions/discussion groups that encourage further community building. Upon completion of these groups, you will be able to move into our on-going leader-focused discipleship group, Equip.

Another commitment you will be making is to serve our church family in some level. The specific area of service will be based on your individual skills and desires, as well as our current needs.

The final commitment will be to join us for corporate prayer. We gather together about an hour before the service to lift up the needs and mission of the church through prayer and to learn a posture of humility towards God and one another. We desire that our members attend at least once a month.

Our aim is to have a process that does not weigh anyone down with expectations and busyness, but one that keeps all of us accountable, serving and loving one another, maturing through repentance, nurturing each other in the Gospel, and growing in the faith.

The Commitments of Sacred Journey

If you are interested in membership, one of the first steps is to listen to the following sermons outlining some of our key practices. Once complete, you can either talk to your community group leader, or, if you have an account on the City, Click here to initiate the online process.