Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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Urban Church Association Membership Agreement Rev. Hank Voss

I. Our Core Commitments

A. Our Purpose. The purpose of The Urban Pastor’s Association is to glorify God by expanding and advancing God’s kingdom among the urban poor through the making of disciples and church planting.

B. Our Objectives. The Urban Pastor’s Association has three objectives:

1. Fellowship – to encourage and exhort each other through: a shared spirituality, regular gatherings, and consistent communication.

2. Resources – to share our resources with one another.

3. Mission – to work together towards a church plant movement among the urban poor.

C. Our Theological Commitment. As members of The Urban Pastor’s Association we commit to defend the “Great Tradition” (the faith “that has been believed, in all places, by all people, at all times”) as expressed in the Nicene Creed.

II. Our Way of Wisdom

The Urban Pastor’s Association gathers to join in God’s work of making disciples and planting churches among the unchurched urban poor. Our Association has agreed to several “Ways of Wisdom” which are consistent at all levels of the association:

A. The “Five E’s” are a summary of the way in which our association is called to make disciples and plant churches:

1. Endearment. We are devoted to God and each other because God loved us first and sent his Son for our salvation. Apart from him we can do nothing (1 John 4.19-21; John 3.16; John 15.1-8).