Are we afraid to commit?

Every sitcom ever made has had at least one member of the main cast, some guy with commitment issues.  It’s almost expected that most guys will have a fear of commitment.

But I think most modern western citizens of every gender have commitment issues.  You might be shocked to find out how hard it is to get people to RSVP to things.  (what if something better comes along?)  We have terrible FOMO, and commitment to one thing might keep us from other things!

I’m not telling you anything you don’t know in your soul.

That’s the reason that several years ago, BCC moved away from permanent membership.  Church should be a community of people moving together in a direction.  Not a membership organization of “semi” affiliated parties.   Churches had people “on the rolls” for a long time (sometimes decades) without ever seeing people. That’s not a community!

Now we ask everyone who wants to be a part of our community to pledge to commit for one year.  For one year, we as a community agree to a few things.

We agree to walk humbly with each other. That means we listen to each other even when we don’t like what is being said.

We agree to celebrate with each other the amazing things in our lives, and we agree to grieve alongside each other the difficult things.

We agree to get together to eat, to pray, to cry, to sing, and just to be.

We ask everyone to commit to this, because in the world we live in it is just so hard to have community.  It is hard to listen to others and love them well.  It is hard sometimes to turn off the streaming sites and go to be with people.

But when we commit to it, we remember why we do it.  And we grow a little bit more every time we lean towards what we were created to be rather than what we feel comfortable being.

Will you take the leap this year, join us and commit to being a part of the BCC family for a year?

Read and sign the covenant right here.