2 Flaws That Hinder Healthy Church Membership

Individualism
1. Sociologically
2. Emotionally
3. Spiritually

Consumerism

Pick-a-Pastor
Pick-a-Preference
Pick-a-People
Pick-a-Program

Saved unto Church Membership

Purpose is Given through Church Membership

Congregation
Leading Elders/Pastors
Deacons
Staff & Volunteers
Invisible Parts

Priesthood of the Believer
1 Peter 2:9

Friend, by joining this church, you will become jointly responsible for whether or not this congregation continues to faithfully proclaim the gospel. That means you will become jointly responsible both for what this church teaches, as well as whether or not its members’ lives remain faithful. And one day you will stand before God and give an account for how you used this authority. Will you sit back and stay anonymous, doing little more than passively showing up for 75 minutes on Sundays? Or will you jump in with the hard and rewarding work of studying the gospel, building relationships, and making disciples? We need more hands for the harvest, so we hope you’ll join us in that work. —Mark Dever

Membership - attend, be at member’s meetings, give, disciple, pray, encourage, share the gospel, help defend the gospel, submit to accountability, follow your leaders, hold accountable your leaders to the Word, and serve with your gifts. Know the Gospel, study the gospel, protect the gospel ministry in your church.