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Gordon-Conwell's Community Life Statement
- We affirm that the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the ultimate guide
for our values, attitudes and behaviors in all relationships.
- We will seek to foster the development of spiritual maturity through maintaining a
personal devotional life and through participating in community worship
and prayer.
- We will seek to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace, and in gentleness,
patience and humility, accept one another in love.
- We will seek to encourage one another to mature in Christ-likeness through attempting
to speak the truth in love in the classrooms, in business affairs, in
social relationships and in all other areas of our common life.
- We will seek to encourage unity in families through responsible relationships.
- We will seek to respect and encourage our uniqueness in Christ, which includes our
diversity of denomination, race, culture, personality, experience, gifts
and goals.
- We will seek to become involved individually and corporately with the Church in ministering
to spiritual and social needs within and beyond our own community.
- We renounce attitudes such as greed, jealousy, false pride, lust, bitterness, hostility,
an unforgiving spirit and prejudice such as that based on race, sex, and
academic or socio-economic status.
- We renounce behaviors such as distortion of God's Word, deception, falsehood, drunkenness,
stealing, and sexual immorality such as premarital intercourse, adultery
and homosexual behavior.
- We believe where conflict or sin occurs in the Gordon-Conwell community, a biblical
process such as stated in Matthew 18:15-20 should be followed to seek
correction, forgiveness, restitution and reconciliation.
- We will seek to practice an attitude of mutual submission according to the mind of
Christ, recognizing that at times our personal rights and preferences
must be put aside for the sake of others' conscience and the good of the
community.
- We will seek to encourage the cultivation of such spiritual attitudes as love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
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