…to just attend a church?”

Membership in the Bible

The language of “membership” itself comes from the Scriptures. “For as in one body we have many members,…

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And this is why we practice church membership the way that we do.

Let me explain: our Sunday morning gatherings are not private meetings. We don’t have “members

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…relationship in our meetings. The elders propose an agenda; the members can approve it or suggest changes. The elders introduce motions; the members vote on them and/or propose new motions…

…alone by a paid pastor. So some criticism may be avoided simply by the increased trust that a plurality of congregationally recognized non-staff elders engenders among church members.

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…If you are a believer (1 Peter 1:21), then your true family consists of the blood-bought members of God’s family (1 Peter 1:18-19) rather than the blood-bound members of your…