Continuing our study on what is a healthy church today we look at church membership​. The average SBC church has an inflated membership roster one study showed the typical Southern Baptist Church has 176 members, 69 of whom are present at the typical Sunday morning worship service. In this message, we will answer three questions that I hope will help us rethink church membership. 1. What is a church? 2. Why join a church? 3. What does membership entail?