Membership at RHC

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The essence of membership—committed love and membership tangibly displays the unity and the diversity of the body of Christ.

The main reason we have a membership process at RHC is because we seek to obey the Bible in how we “do” church. Membership makes the gospel visible in the life of the church. It expresses how Christ has saved us and brought us into the community of God’s people.

There are many commands which are impossible to obey without being committed to a local church, such as communion and baptism. Jesus said “whoever loves God must also love his brother” (1 John 4:21). The local church becomes the place where we put into practice the fruit of the Spirit within real relationships.

This is why we need the church in order to grow as Christians. Through discipling, encouraging, and correcting one another in the local church, we gain assurance of our own salvation. Membership also defines who the shepherds in the church are accountable for and who can be depended upon to fulfil our mission as the church.

Membership at a local church is for everyone who is a disciple of Jesus Christ. At RHC, our membership process includes attending a Membership Class to help you understand our values, the commitments and to let us know how to care for you better. It also requires meeting with an elder and baptism as a believer.

 
 

Membership Class

We run the Membership Class throughout the year. We will be looking at how the Gospel is at the heart of our values and culture as a church, how it saves us into a church family, and what meaningful membership tangibly looks like at RHC. The class consists of 3 parts:

1) a short 30 mins Zoom session,

2) completing a portion of the class on your own on an e-learning platform, and

3) an in-person session

March-April Membership Class:

Thank you for your interest in our Membership Class. Registration is now closed as it is full. Please email us at membership@rhc.org.sg to join the waitlist.

Zoom session: 5 March, 8pm-8.30pm

E-learning period: 6 - 30 March

In-person session: 5 April, 8.45am-1.00pm

 

RHC MEMBERS' COVENANT +

Having been brought by God’s grace to repent from sin, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be baptised into Christ, and desiring to live our new life in Christ in light of the Gospel, we joyfully and solemnly enter into this covenant with one another as one body in Christ.

  1. We will not neglect to gather regularly for corporate worship, or to pray for ourselves and others. (Heb 10:25; Col 4:2)
  2. We will rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep, bearing each other’s burdens with tenderness and compassion. (Rom 12:15)
  3. We will be devoted to one another in brotherly love; to watch over, pray for, patiently bear with, forgive, encourage, and admonish one another with love, humility and gentleness. (Rom 12:10; Luke 17:3; Col 3:13; 1 Thes 5:11; 1 Pet 1:22)
  4. We will serve others with the spiritual gifts that God has blessed us with, for the edification of the body of Christ. (Eph 4:15-16; Rom 12:3-8)
  5. We will endeavour to raise the children and youth under our care in the training and instruction of the Lord. (Eph 6:4)
  6. We will seek the salvation of our family and friends by sharing Christ with them, and seek the welfare of the city by living lives that are consistent with the Gospel. (Acts 13:47; 1 Pet 2:12; Col 3:17)
  7. We will strive to pursue personal holiness in our lives and grow in Christ-likeness with the help of the Holy Spirit by resisting conformity to this world and submitting to the authority of Scripture. (Tit 2:12; 1 Pet 1:14)
  8. We will contribute cheerfully, generously and regularly to the church to support the ministry of the Word, the relief of the poor in our midst, and the spread of the Gospel to all nations. (Matt 28:19; Luk 12:33; 2 Cor 9:7)
  9. We will work together in unity to achieve our mission of making Spirit-filled disciples through a biblically faithful ministry in this church, as we sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines. (Eph 4:3; 2 Tim 4:2; 1 Tim 3:1-13; 1 Tim 3:15; Acts 2:38; 1 Cor 11:26; Matt 18:17; 1 Cor 5:13)
  10. We will, when we move from this place, join another Gospel-preaching church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen.