The idea that the local church is more than an organization which people join and for which there is little, if any, accountability is a foreign one to the twenty-first century American church. Tom Ascol commented on the high tolerance for sin in the fellowship with these observations: “The corporate discipline of the church has [...]
Posts Tagged ‘church membership’
Serious about the fellowship
Posted in Church, Church discipline, tagged church discipline, church membership, numbers on August 3, 2011 |
Does church membership really matter?
Posted in Church, Discipleship, Worship, tagged 1 John 2:19, church membership, Greg Wills, Hebrews 10:24-25, Jesse Mercer on September 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
How strict should a church be about its membership? Should everyone who applies be admitted? Should members who quit attending be removed from the membership? Does membership really matter? These are not easy questions. Admittedly, they are rarely asked in our day. It has been said that there’s nothing easier to join than a Baptist [...]
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