Interested in Becoming a Church Member?

Individuals regularly attending the meetings of this Congregation are encouraged
to seek membership with the Congregation for fellowship, instruction, and shepherding.
If you are interested in becoming a member of Grace Point at Eagle Heights Church, please read the material below, listen to the attached audio files from our membership class (Class 101), then download and complete the attached Membership Application below. Once this has been completed, please bring it to Pastor Kevin or one of the church elders for review.
At this point, Pastor Kevin will be glad to answer any other questions that you may have,then discuss when to present you to the congregation for acceptance into the church body.

Qualifications for Membership

Give a clear testimony of being growing follower of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.
Be at least twelve years of age.
Be baptized following salvation.
Agree with and commit to abide by our Church Covenant (in Membership Application).
Complete the Membership Application (Download Below or Pick up from Church Office).
(Note: You need not give full assent to the Statement of Faith but recognize that all of our teaching will conform to this statement.)
Church membership is a formal and public proclamation of your commitment to this church
—both the congregation and its pastors (Elders)—as an expression of your devotion to Jesus Christ.
We realize the term membership does not appear in the New Testament in relation to the church.
Neither do we see commands to maintain roles or procedures to receive members.
Nevertheless, the New Testament lays the foundation for the practice of church membership.
Jesus established the church to be a public, earthly institution that would mark out, affirm, and oversee those who profess to believe in him (Matt. 16:18-19, 18:15-20). Jesus established the church to publicly declare those who belong to him in order to give the world a display of the good news about himself (John 17:21, 23; see also Eph. 3:10). Jesus wants the world to know who belongs to him and who doesn’t. And how is the world to know who belongs to him and who doesn’t? They are to see which people publicly identify themselves with his people in the visible, public institution he established for this very purpose. They’re to look at the members of his church. And if some people claim to be part of the universal church even though they belong to no local church, they reject Jesus’ plan for them and his church. Jesus intends for his people to be marked out as a visible, public group, which means joining together in local churches.

Scripture repeatedly commands Christians to submit to their leaders (Heb. 13:17; 1 Thess. 5:12-13).
The only way to do that is by publicly committing to be members of their flock, and saying in effect,
“I commit to listening to your teaching, following your direction, and to submitting to your leadership.”

There is no way to obey the scriptural commands to submit to your leaders
if you never actually submit to them by joining a local church.

Learn more from the messages on mebership below: 

Membership Lesson 1 Welcome and Savation
Jan 1, 2025
Membership Lesson 2 What is a Church
Jan 2, 2025  •  Kevin Inman
Membership Lesson 3 Why Become a Member of a Church
Jan 3, 2025  •  Kevin Inman
Membership Lesson 4 What Can We Expect of the church and of the members
Jan 4, 2025