COBEN MISSION STATEMENT:

The Church Of the Brethren Evangelical Network (COBEN) exists to provide a forum among evangelical Church of the Brethren leaders and laypersons for mutual support, encouragement, and the exchange of ideas in a positive manner within the context of our love and concern for the Church.

This egroup exists to provide the forum for exchange of ideas, encouragement and mutual support among evangelical leaders.

The core values listed below are assumed. This is not a forum to debate these core values. It is a forum to provide nurture, support and networking among the Brethren who are able to endorse these core values. This group is not an official agency of the Church of the Brethren.

We affirm the following core values:

1. Salvation is a personal relationship with God, entered into by faith in the shed blood of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior;

2. The Bible as Holy Scripture, the self-revelation of God to humankind, True and reliable in the original, and fully authoritative for all matters of faith and practice;

3. The continuing work of the Holy Spirit to change us into the image of Jesus;

4. The call to live in covenant with sisters and brothers in the faith;

5. The Apostle's Creed (Hymnal: A Worship Book # 712) as a reflection of the timeless truth of Christianity.