Posts Tagged ‘Church Membership’
Christians Who Feel They Don’t Need Church Anymore
I have met Christians that conclude that they don’t need the local church anymore. They might watch services online, listen to sermon podcasts, or read Christian books, and/or worship alone or as a family, but when it comes to being a part of local church life, they avoid it. You might be one of these.…
Read MoreI’ll Do It My Way
Proverbs 18:1-2 (NKJV), A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment. A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart. Isolationism is what is spoken of here in these verses, a sense of doing something “my way” even when it goes against godly wisdom.…
Read MoreFrontLine: Membership Matters
FrontLine May/June 2018 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 3 Membership Matters Church membership, graphically portrayed here as a flock of sheep under their shepherd, is one of the most important and practical areas of theology. Church is where almost all the rest of the “-ologies” are put into practical function. Paul declared that the church—and…
Read MoreWhy Do We Have a Sunday Night Service?
This post is part 3 of a 4 part series on why you should consider attending more than one church service each week. Part 1 offered five foundational reasons we should be as involved in the life of the church as possible. Pastor Kris followed with part 2, which detailed why we offer Sunday school…
Read MoreChurch Attendance
George Stiekes And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25 I knocked on the door of a couple in…
Read MoreThe Necessity of Church Membership
Michael Riley A sound church must be committed to meaningful church membership. This is not a popular topic in our day, for at least a couple of (related) reasons. The first is the widespread individualism of our society. Many factors of life today have turned people inward: it is not unusual for people to barely…
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