Introduction to the Flag.
The Christian flag was born into the Christian fellowship over one hundred
years ago. Today, some 244,000 churches display one or more Christian flags in their sanctuaries and classrooms.
It's Design.
The Christian flag was designed by Charles Overton in 1897. The red cross
stands for the Christian faith, God's love for man and the promise of eternal life. The blue represents Christ's faithfulness
unto death. The white background signifies purity, innocence and peace.
The Birth of the Christian Flag.
The feature speaker failed to arrive for the Sunday School Rally in a
Coney Island Chapel in 1897, and the Christian flag was born. Like so many of the great and memorable things of history, a
Christian flag was not contemptlated or predesigned. The Sunday School was holding and old-fashioned Rally Day of the kind
which was so much the custom in years past. For this occasion, a favored speaker had been engaged, but for some reason undisclosed
did not show up. Superintendent Charles C. Overton, in the emergency, called upon his own gifts of innovation to fill the
time. An American flag lay there across the pulpit. Overton addressed his words to the flag and it's symbolism. Then like
a flash came the thought, why not also a Christian flag? His impromptu but constructive ad-libbing was to produce a verbal
picture of what is today, and for the past one hundred years has been, the Christian flag.
Today the Christian flag is one of the oldest unchanged flags in the
world. It was conceived at Brighton Chapel, Coney Island, New York, Sunday, September 26, 1897, and was presented in its present
form the following Sunday by its originator. On that day, the Christian flag was born.
It's Unique Character.
The Christian flag is the ONLY FREE flag in the world. It is different
from every other flag, religious or secular, ancient or modern. It is uncontrolled, independent, and universal. Unlike all
national flags and all denominational flags of various churches, it has no earthly bonds or allegiances. Christ and Christ
alone is its Master. Without limitation, it exists for all the world's people regardless of sex, race, national boundary,
economic condition, affluence, or poverty, politics, slavery, or freedom. It cannot be restricted by any nation or denomination.
This unique, universal quality makes it like the air we breathe, belonging to all and yet owned by none.
Pledges.
There are more than one version of pledges. This church uses the one
at the head of this page.
Here is another version:
" I pledge allegiance To the Christian Flag, And to the Saviour, For
whose kingdom it stands, one brotherhood, uniting all true Christians in service and love."
Allegiance to Jesus Christ
I pledge allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ
The Son of One and Only Holy God.
Who was sent from Heaven to Earth
To be born of a virgin and live a sinless life.
Though He was without sin took the place of sinners
On the cross at Calvery. He died on that cross, shed His blood
On that cross as a substitute accepted by God in the place of sinners.
He was buried in a tomb and on the third day arose alive from the grave.
He is the ONLY mediator between God and man.
He is the ONLY was to have eternal life with God.
