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Membership

Membership is a participation in the community of faith. It’s best to ask why would one want to become a member?

  • To grow in who Christ is, and who He called you to be.

  • To grow in your ability to be a servant of Jesus.

  • To grow in sharing the gospel.

  • To grow in commitment to His covenant faithfulness as He sanctifies us till death or He comes again.

  • We need each other!

  • To develop a Christ honoring leadership who cares for your soul. Heb. 13:17.

For Christ Coastal Church membership is not about tithe tracking. We believe all of us will stand before Christ to give account for the things we’ve done and haven’t done.

We strive to see Jesus as well as we can through the glass dimly now, treasuring and expecting affirmations with the church triumphant. Our beginning standards are small but we expect growth. The following we expect for membership:

  • The Apostle’s Creed

  • The Ten Commandments

  • The Lord’s Prayer

  • Statements on the Authority of Scripture

    • We believe in the authority of Scripture as attested by the Holy Spirit, holding it to be our final and only rule for faith and practice.  The Bible consists of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments.  God spoke even through men inspiring the books written.  God established the cannon of Scripture by the Holy Spirit through the councils of men affirming His will.  The Holy Spirit actively reveals His Word to us today.  It is in fact only by the revelation of the Holy Spirit as we read and hear the words of scripture that we may see.  Because of this revelation by the Holy Spirit we hold the scriptures to be inspired, infallible, and inerrant.  They are trustworthy treasures.  We seek to know Jesus Christ our Lord most fully as attested in all of Scripture, humbling ourselves to the Word’s decrees, majesty, and commands and seeking to be transformed by this Truth to be children of God.  O taste and see that the Lord is good. 

    • We faithfully hold to scripture as the Word of God, inspired, directed, collected, canonized, maintained, preserved and revealed by the Holy Spirit.  Guided by the Holy Spirit we hold the Bible to be complete, perfect, authoritative, inspired, infallible, and inerrant.  

Together we are guided by the Reformed principle of seeking Christ prayerfully in His Word, grasping what we can and taking our learning over and over again before God’s Word. We seek Him as servants with thirst to the Living Water, not to master Him. The Solas of the reformation guide our growth.

  • Sola Scriptura-God’s Word alone. Christ as attested in scripture through Holy Spirit is our supreme guide in all matters of faith and practice

  • Sola Fide-By Faith alone. We are dead in sin and unworthy. What precious life we have is a gift from God.

  • Sola Gratia-By Grace alone.

  • Sola Christo-By Christ alone.

  • Soli Deo Gloria-to the glory of God alone. Psalm 115:1

Leadership

As we mature our standard of leadership is more difficult. Approaching God’s Word we seek to understand it from His Revelation through the Holy Spirit. We do so with the church before us. With Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger and Short Catechisms, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed we bind ourselves to God’s covenant faithfulness, glorifying God and enjoying Him forever. Steadfastly we seek Him in His Word proclaiming Him to the ends of the earth till He comes again.

All of this teaching (doctrine) is because we strive to neither say more nor less than Jesus has given us to know Him ourselves and witness His wondrous love to the world until He comes again. When it comes to dogma the question is never must we, but may we believe it. He is full of grace and truth, the only way to the Father. There is no greater Joy we seek than seeing Jesus face to face. Today let us be planted by the His rivers of His living water bearing the fruit of our testimony until His Bride is complete and He will come again in Glory! Let us worship our King together.


He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8 ESV