Member affirmation is held during our Sunday gathering on the 4th Sunday of each month. Our team will follow up with you to confirm a service.
I commit to participate faithfully in Sunday morning worship. I commit to serving regularly in the church. I commit to submit to the leadership of the church.
I commit to pursue spiritual habits in order to grow personally. I commit to growing with others through joining a community group, discipleship group, or participating in a men's or women's Bible study.
I commit to being trained to help others grow in their relationship with Christ.
I commit to financially support the mission of Northside Church through sacrificial and generous giving.
I commit to seek to know and serve my neighbors. I commit to exercise biblical hospitality. I commit to share the gospel with others.
There may come a time when the Lord leads you to become a part of another church family. We want to make sure that you are cared for every step of the way. Will you commit to let the leadership of the church process this decision with you?
We believe that church membership involves a glad submission to the ways and teachings of Scripture. Certain known lifestyle decisions by members or potential members of Northside Church may bring about opportunities for input and correction from fellow members or pastors in our church. Examples may include co-habitation, drunkenness, addiction, heresies, seeking a divorce outside of biblical guidelines, efforts toward disunity and disgruntledness, mistreatment or abuse of others, gossip, and other clear violations of biblical commands. We commit to listen to one another and the leadership of the church, while we also commit to gentle, prayerful, hope-filled correction toward one another. Matters may be forced to follow church discipline guidelines as outlined in Scripture. This may involve the removal of a person's status as a church member.
We believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible word of God. It is truth without any mixture of error, and is sufficient for matters of faith and practice.
God is one in being, and three in person: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is independent, eternal, unchanging, all-powerful, all-present, all-knowing, and perfectly wise, good, and loving. He is the Creator, who demands and deserves all glory. God is sovereign over all things such that there is no aspect of reality outside of his ultimate control. Though man is responsible for his sin, God is ultimately and entirely responsible for drawing those he would save unto himself and overcoming their natural resistance to the gospel.
Jesus is the Son of God, and is both fully God and fully man. Jesus lived a perfect life, died on the cross to pay the penalty for sin, and rose victorious from the grave. He is coming again to make the world right. In the gospel work, Jesus bridges the relational brokeness between man and himself, man and others, man and creation, and man and God (both individually in persons and collectively in cities and cultures).
The gospel is the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus’ death satisfies the demands of God’s holy justice and appeases His holy wrath. His death also demonstrates his mysterious love and reveals his amazing grace. The implications of the gospel are far reaching, with numerous applications in our everyday lives.
The Holy Spirit is the active person of God at work in the world. He works through the gifts of His people, convicts of sin, and counsels followers of Jesus. The Holy Spirit seals believers together with Christ, and empowers mission in the world. The miraculous gifts of the Spirit have not ceased today, but should be carried out in submission to Scripture and the leadership of the local church. Individuals with a heavy theological and practical emphasis on miraculous gifts should discuss this point with a pastor at Northside.
Man is the valuable, beloved, and uplifted image-bearing treasure of God. Man is also sinful, and in rebellion against God in both commission and omission. Apart from salvation in Jesus, man is unable to be saved from the penalty of sin (judgment forever in hell separated from God). Men and women are absolutely equal in essence, dignity and value but are different by divine design. Marriage is a picture of the gospel, and is the uniting of one man and and one woman for lifetime.
Sin is rebellion against a holy God. Humans beings are sinful by birth and action. As sin entered through Adam and Eve in the garden, brokenness developed in four major areas: in our relationship with ourselves, others, creation, and God. The collective work of sin on the earth may be referred to as the curse. Death is the result of sin, separating our body from soul.
Baptism is intended only for those who have professed faith in Jesus Christ and can give sufficient testimony to the basics of Christian beliefs. Also, we baptize by immersion because it is not only the original significance of the word, but also best symbolizes the reality to which baptism points—our death and resurrection in Christ. Although baptism as an infant may have been an important spiritual step for a family, membership at Northside requires baptism by immersion (at Northside or a past church of like faith).
Jesus came to save sinners. Salvation is the work of the application of the gospel both in the individual life of a believer, and also the collective work of Christ in cities and cultures. Salvation is available to all people, but it is not automatic. Repentance and faith are necessary for salvation. Works and deeds cannot save. Those who repent and place their faith in Jesus will demonstrate a life of following Jesus. In summary, salvation is in grace alone, though faith alone, in Christ alone.
The church is the collection of God’s people redeemed by the gospel, who gather as a community of believers, and are sent out with the message of the gospel into a broken world. Jesus died for the church, and His people are the primary vehicle for the gospel in the world. The church sends out missionaries, builds families, cares for sick, and is a safe home for the hurting and wandering.
