We seek spiritual maturity by maintaining a personal devotional life, participating in community worship and prayer, being firmly planted in the life, ministry, and spiritual oversight of a local church, parish, synagogue or other assembly of believers.

We seek to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace; to accept one another in love through humility, gentleness, and patience.

We seek to encourage one another to mature in Christ-likeness by speaking the truth in love, in our classrooms, business affairs, social relationships, and in all other areas of our shared life.

We encourage responsible relationships and unity within families.

We seek to respect and encourage our uniqueness in Christ, which includes our diversity of denomination, race, culture, personality, development, experience, gifts and goals.

We 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 discrimination or prejudice such as that based on race, sex, appearance, emotional health, athletic ability and academic or socio-economic status.

We renounce behaviors such as distortion of God’s Word, deception, falsehood, malicious speech, drunkenness, drug abuse, stealing, cheating, and sexual immorality such as pornography, premarital sex, adultery and homosexual behavior.

We acknowledge that every single person has engaged in attitudes and behaviors that fall short of God’s standards and we rejoice in God’s restitution and forgiveness. We affirm the mandates of God’s Word to treat all human beings with love and respect whether or not they accept and endorse these values.

We seek to follow, where interpersonal conflict arises or such shortfalls in attitudes and behaviors occur, a biblical process such as outlined in Matthew 18:15-20 for correction, forgiveness, restitution and reconciliation.

We 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 seek to encourage the cultivation of such spiritual attitudes as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.