Worship

OPEN AND AFFIRMING COVENANT

BEHOLD HOW WONDERFUL IT IS WHEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS DWELL IN UNITY

Second Congregational Church of Cohasset declares itself to be OPEN to all for participation, membership, leadership and employment regardless of age, race, ancestry, class, gender, emotional and spiritual affirmation. We further declare ourselves to be AFFIRMING of each individual as a child of God, celebrating the total identity of each person including his or her age, race, ancestry, class, gender/identity, physical/mental and sexual orientation.

Statement of Faith

We believe in God, infinite in wisdom, goodness and love; and in Jesus Christ, beloved Son, our Lord and Savior, who for us and our salvation lived and died and lives evermore; and in the Holy Spirit, who takes of the things of Christ and reveals them to us, renewing, comforting and inspiring the souls of all. We are united in striving to know the will of God as taught in the Holy Scriptures, and in our purpose to walk in the ways of the Lord, made known or to be made known to us.

We hold it to be the mission of the Church of Christ to proclaim the gospel, to exalt the worship of God, and to labor for the progress of knowledge, the promotion of justice, the triumph of peace, and the realization of human fellowship among all people. Depending, as did our forebears, upon the continued guidance of the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth, we work and pray for the transformation of the world into the Kingdom of God; and we look with faith for the triumph of righteousness and for life and glory everlasting. Amen.

Adopted by the National Council at Kansas City, October, 1913; Adopted by Second Congregational Church, May 26, 1915; Adapted August 2, 2006