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OurCovenants
The BCC communities are an expression of our life in Christ. We find in His rule an exposition of Christ's teaching which we feel will lead us to Christ through Community.
Christ's Word is our guide and it out of His Word that we form our Covenant:
Affirmation (Unconditional Love)
"There is nothing you have done or will do that will make me stop loving you. I may not agree with your actions, but I will love you as a person and do all I can to hold you up in God's affirming love."
Availability
"Anything I have--time, energy, insight, possessions--are at your disposal if you need them. I give these to you in a priority of covenant over other non-covenant demands. As part of this availability I pledge regularity of time, Community and group prayer, and agreed-upon meeting times."
Prayer
"I covenant to pray for you daily, believing that our caring Father wishes His children to pray for one another and ask Him for the blessings they need."
Openess
"I promise to strive to become a more open person, disclosing my feelings, my struggles, my joys, and my hurts to you as well as I am able. The degree to which I do so implies that I cannot make it without you, that I trust you with my needs and that I need you. This is to affirm your worth to me as a person. In other words 'I need you!'"
Sensitivity
"Even as I desire to be known and understood by you, I covenant to be sensitive to you and your needs to the best of my ability. I will try to hear you, see you, and feel where you are, to draw you out of the pit of discouragement or withdrawl."
Honesty
"I will try to 'mirror back' to you what I am hearing you say and feel. If this means risking pain for either of us, I will trust our relationship to take that risk, realizing that it is in 'speaking the truth in love' that we grow up in every way into Christ who is the Head. I will try to express this honesty, to 'meter' it according to what I percieve circumstances to be."
Confidentiality
"I will promise to keep whatever is shared within the confines of the group."
Accountability
"I promise that the gifts God had given me for the common good should be liberated for your benefit. If I should discover areas of my life that are under bondage, 'hung up', of truncated by my own misdoings or by the scars inflicted by others, I will seek Christ's liberating power through the Holy Spirit, the Sacraments and though my Covenant Partners so that I might give to you more of myself. I am accountable to you to become what God has designed me to be in His loving creation."