Membership Requirements

Membership Requirements

Our membership requirements strive to encourage Christian maturity, foster accountability, and promote a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, we ask that all members agree to our Statement of Faith and to our Membership Requirements.

Statement of Faith

Be a professing Christian living by Biblical principles. Every adult on the membership must affirm the following Statement of Faith:

Believe in the triune God of the Bible. He is one God Who is revealed in three distinct Persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

GEN 1:26 | LUKE 1:35, 3:21-22 | 2 COR 13:14 | MATT 28:18-20

Believe Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, and continues to be such even after His resurrection—fully God and fully man. He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, was bodily resurrected on the third day, and now is seated in the heavens at the right hand of God the Father.

ISA 7:14, 9:6 | MATT 1:22-23, 26:64 | MARK 16:19 | LUKE 24:38-40 | JOHN 1:1-2, 1:14, 1:29, 2:18-21, 5:18, 8:46 | ACTS 2:32-33 | 1 COR 15:3-4, 15:20-21 | 2 COR 5:21 | COL 1:15-20, 2:9 | HEB 1:1-4, 4:14-15, 7:26, 9:11-14, 10:10-12 | 1 PETER 2:22-24 | 1 JOHN 3:5

Believe that all people have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory and can be saved from eternal death only through faith in Jesus Christ, Whose atoning death and resurrection secures for us eternal life.

JER 17:9 | JOHN 3:3, 14:6, 20:30-31 | ROM 3:9-11, 3:23, 5:12-21, 10:8-13 | EPH 2:8-9

Membership Requirements

As a community of Christians helping other Christians with their medical bills, every adult on a membership must attend a Biblical, Christian church regularly (at least three out of four weeks per month that your health or weather permits). If it is not possible for you to regularly attend a Biblical, Christian church, please submit a letter giving the details. Hebrews 10:25

Note: Fellowships, churches, temples, wards, and denominations that fall outside of Biblical, Christian faith—such as the Church of Scientology, Unitarian, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—do not qualify for the church attendance requirement.

Believe you are to bear one another’s burdens. Galatians 6:2 | Philippians 2:4 

Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that abusing any substance is sin. Empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit, you are committed to living a holy and consecrated life in which you abstain from illegal drugs, legal or prescribed substance abuse, recreational marijuana, and tobacco (the ministry allows a rare celebratory cigar or pipe). Romans 13:1 | 1 Corinthians 6:12

Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that drunkenness is a sin. Empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit, you are committed to living a holy and consecrated life in which you limit consumption of alcohol to moderate amounts and do not drink to drunkenness or cause another brother or sister in Christ to stumble. Ephesians 5:18

Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that God gifted you your biological sex, and that manifesting any identity outside of your God-given biological sex is a sin. 1 Corinthians 6:18

Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and any sexual activity outside traditional, historically Biblically orthodox marriage as designed by God between one biological man and one biological woman, is a sin. Empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit, you are committed to living a holy and consecrated life in which you live a life in conformity with your God-given biological sex, and abstain from any sexual activity outside of traditional, historically orthodox Biblical marriage. Genesis 1:27, 2:24 | Matthew 19:5 

Believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and agree to practice good health measures in accordance with that belief. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Keep your membership active by fully funding your Share Wallet and sending your Share each month. If financial difficulty is the cause of these problems, assistance might be available through the Sponsorship Program. Luke 16:10 

Agree that when you have a dispute with a fellow Christian, and your fellow Christian is willing to submit that dispute to fellow believers for resolution, you are not to sue each other in the civil courts or other government agencies. If you initiate a legal proceeding against REDEEM HealthShare Ministry or Samaritan Ministries International, you will disqualify yourself from membership. 1 Corinthians 6:1-8

Submit your Membership Continuation Agreement, which includes the Accountability Verification each year, confirming that you are still meeting the membership requirements. Proverbs 10:9 

During the initial application process, you will forward your pastor, church officer, or person of accountability the Accountability Verification form. This individual must complete and submit the form confirming that you meet the above requirements. Hebrews 13:17