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Sam’s Club membership
Everybody loves getting a discount on 500 rolls of toilet paper!
Membership has a value!
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Church Membership: it matters.
Reasons Membership Matters
Membership Means Representing Jesus
It’s biblical.
Jesus established the local church and all the apostles did their ministry through it.
The Christian life in the New Testament is church life.
Christians today should expect and desire the same.
The church is its members.
To be a church in the New Testament is to be one of its members (read through Acts).
And you want to be part of the church because that’s who Jesus came to rescue and reconcile to himself.
One visible sign is the Lord’s Supper.
The Lord’s Supper is a meal for the gathered church, that is, for members (see 1 Cor.
11:20–33).
And you want to take the Lord’s Supper.
It’s the team flag that makes the church team visible to the nations.
It’s how you officially represent Jesus.
Membership is the church’s affirmation that you are a citizen of Christ’s kingdom and therefore a passport-carrying Jesus representative before the nations.
And you want your representation to be authorized.
Closely related to this.…
Membership is how we serve.
It’s how you serve other Christians.
Membership helps you to know which Christians on planet Earth you are specifically responsible to love, serve, warn, and encourage.
It enables you to fulfill your biblical responsibilities to Christ’s body.
Membership Means There’s a Structure
It’s how you know what leaders to follow.
It helps Christian leaders lead.
Membership lets Christian leaders know which Christians on planet Earth they will “give an account” for.
It gives structure to your Christian life.
It places an individual Christian’s claim to obey and follow Jesus into a real-life setting where authority is actually exercised over us.
In other words, It’s God’s discipling program.
Membership Builds Our Witness
It builds a witness and invites the nations.
Membership puts the alternative rule of Christ on display for the watching universe .
The very boundaries, which are drawn around the membership of a church, yield a society of people that invites the nations to something better.
It’s God’s evangelism program.
Membership matters!
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