Our commitment

A word of explanation: When Princes End Baptist Church and Glebefields Centre Church merged in 2002 we discovered among the church records a copy of the original Covenant used by the founding members in 1846. It so well summarises the commitment that we make to the Lord and to each other we have reintroduced its use.
The original wording of the Covenant has been retained as a tribute to our forbears who preached the gospel in Princes End and saw the first conversions back in the 1820s. At one point we considered rewriting the Covenant in contemporary language but instead have produced an annotated version (available here as a pdf)

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;
• that we will exercise a Christian care and watchfulness over each other, and faithfully warn, rebuke, and admonish one another, as the case may require;
• that we will not "forsake the assembling of ourselves together," nor omit the great duty of prayer both for ourselves and others;
• that we will participate in each other's joys and endeavour with tenderness and sympathy to bear each other's burdens and sorrows;
• that we will earnestly endeavour to bring up such as may be under our care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;
• that we will seek Divine aid to enable us to walk circumspectly and watchful in the world "denying ungodliness and every worldly lust;"
• that we will strive together for the support of a faithful evangelical ministry among us;
• that we will endeavour by example and by effort to win souls to Christ;
• and through life, amidst evil report and good report, seek to live to the glory of Him "who hath called us out of darkness into His marvellous light."