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Do you think government is important?
Government says something important
• Values
• History
• Theology
• Locality
• Identity
Luke 14:25-27, 33
25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to
them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own
father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,
yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27 Whoever
does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my
disciple… 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce
all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 18:15-17
15 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault,
between you and him alone.
If he listens to you, you have gained
your brother.
16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with
you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of
two or three witnesses.
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.
And if he
refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a
Gentile and a tax collector.
How does church membership
and voting at a business meeting
help someone take a step to the right?
Definition of a Church
What a church is NOT:
• Building
• Club
• Denomination
• Entertainment show
• Bible study
• Camp
• Home group
Definition of a Church
What a church IS:
• People who are born again Christians who meet
together in order to be a church
Definition of a Church
What a church IS:
• A group of believers who organize together to do
what a church does: preach the word, make
disciples, baptize converts, celebrate the Lord’s
Table.
Definition of a Church
What a church IS:
• Key Elements:
• People
• Born again
• Meeting together
• Intention of being a church
Church Membership
A formal, public commitment which identifies you with
a local church.
Church Membership
A declaration
that you are a follower of Jesus
who wants to meet with other followers of Jesus
in order to do what a church does:
preach the word,
make disciples,
baptize converts,
celebrate the Lord’s Table.
Church Membership at TBC
5 steps:
• Regular attendance for at least 6 months
• Attend four membership classes
• Application
• Interview
• Public testimony of faith in Christ to the church
Is Church Membership Biblical?
Is Church Membership Biblical?
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.
And
if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to
you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Is Church Membership Biblical?
1 Corinthians 5:4-5, 12
4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus
and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of
the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the
Lord.
12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders?
Is it not
those inside the church whom you are to judge?
Is Church Membership Biblical?
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are
keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have
to give an account.
Let them do this with joy and not
with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to
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