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One of the saddest things in life is to lose hope. When we lose hope, we lose the belief that tomorrow can be different and better. We are left with a sense of emptiness and purposelessness. Eventually, we grow exhausted and isolated because we begin asking ourselves, "What is the point of fighting? Why invest in anything or anyone?" In this broken world, I would dare to say that hope is as essential to the soul as bread is to the body. That is why we must learn not merely to

Throughout this series, we have seen that Christ has called His Church to live together as one body. We have seen that Scripture is our ultimate authority, that holiness is our calling, that we are to faithfully gather and fellowship with one another, that we are to sacrificially support the work of the church, lovingly pursue one another when sin occurs, and submit to the elders Christ has appointed to shepherd us. Now, as we come to our final Membership Covenant commitment,

As we come to the second-to-last commitment of the Knox Membership Covenant, we’ve seen several things up to this point. We have seen that Christ calls His church to pursue holiness together and that, as a gathered body of Christ, every member has a responsibility towards one another. In the last commitment, we looked at church discipline specifically and noted that the elders play an important role in the shepherding process. This naturally raises the question of who the eld