{"id":5941,"date":"2020-07-30T11:09:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T11:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/cloned\/?page_id=5941"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T11:25:08","slug":"become-a-member","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/?page_id=5941","title":{"rendered":"Become A Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div id=\"cmsmasters_row_69d42a43ab6ad0_51145973\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<p>The general church membership is open to all professing Christians upon acceptance of the Lordship of Jesus Christ in their lives. Salvation is the only requirement for the membership, uniting us in Christ with \u201cOne Lord, One faith, One baptism, One God and Father of all\u201d (Ephesians 4:5-6). However, those willing to hear the Good News of the Gospel as they may<br \/>be drawn by the Holy Spirit are welcome in the Fellowship as they look forward to the manifestation of Jesus Christ in their lives. Church register is kept for various reasons (e.g. legal requirements by the law of the land, congregational statistics etc.) This is achieved by filling Membership Registration Card (Form<br \/>1). The register is renewed after every five years. Membership by affiliation is allowed upon application.<br \/>Membership participation is by:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fellowship: &#8211; Coming together regularly to worship God and build one another up in faith.<\/li>\n<li>Discipleship: &#8211; Helping each other to grow in faith by applying the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15) and fulfilling the Great Commission (Matthew 20:19-20, 2 Timothy2:2).<\/li>\n<li>Stewardship: &#8211; Voluntary giving to the work of God and also sharing personal<br \/>possessions among brethren and the community (2 Corinthians 8:3-5).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5658,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5941","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5941\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcccog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}