Every Christian
is joined
to Jesus.
We’re also
joined to others
in His church family

(1 Corinthians 12:13)

We express this belonging to Jesus and to one another through church membership and we encourage every baptised believer who has been with us for more than 3 months or so to consider this. 

In an age where commitment is a rare commodity we’re determined to resist being self- centred consumers and (with God’s help!) be serving followers of Jesus.

God has been kindly at work in the lives of people in Tipton and the Black Country for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years. The earliest roots of our church go back to the 1820s, when through the preaching of the gospel in Princes End local people turned to Christ, were baptised (in the canal!) and gathered together as a church. When, in 1846, they built their first chapel they adopted this covenant  to express their commitment to Christ and his people.

We use it to declare our own commitment and accountability to each other and to the Lord himself. And we’ve kept the old language, to help remind us that we’re not the first generation of people that God has miraculously worked in and who are committing to live for Him in this way. Nor, we pray, will we be the last.

As we trust we have been brought by Divine Grace to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ,
and by the influence of His Spirit to give ourselves up to Him, we do now Covenant with each other, that God enabling us, 

- We will walk together in brotherly love;

- We will exercise a Christian care and watchfulness over each other,
and faithfully warn, rebuke, and admonish one another, as the case may require;

- We will not "forsake the assembling of ourselves together,"
nor omit the great duty of prayer both for ourselves and others;

- We will participate in each other's joys
and endeavour with tenderness and sympathy to bear each others burdens and sorrows; 

- We will earnestly endeavour to bring up such as may be under our care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;

- We will seek Divine aid to enable us to walk circumspectly and watchful in the world "denying ungodliness and every worldly lust;

- We will strive together for the support of a faithful evangelical ministry among us;

- We will endeavour by example and by effort to win souls to Christ; 

- and through life, amidst evil report and good report, we will seek to live to the glory of Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvellous light.