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What Does God’s Love Have to Do With Church Membership?
I read through Jonathan Leeman’s The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love this past week. When I picked it up, I thought, Do I want to read 360 pages on church membership and discipline? Not...
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Baptism and Church Membership: Sometimes Obedience Results in Painful...
Editors’ Note: How do baptism and church membership relate? What are the biblical bounds? Baptists debate, “Must one be baptized as a believer in order to join a local church?” Meanwhile, Presbyterians...
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Membership Requires Affirmation of Infant Baptism: A Paedobaptist Response
Editors’ Note: How do baptism and church membership relate? What are the biblical bounds? Baptists debate, “Must one be baptized as a believer in order to join a church?” Meanwhile, Presbyterians and...
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How to Conduct an Effective Membership Interview
At the outset, it may be helpful to acknowledge that there are no specific verses in Scripture that require a church to conduct an interview before recognizing someone as a member of its congregation....
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Talk to certain critics of Reformed theology, and you might think something about the doctrines of grace inhibits church growth. Talk to some proponents of Reformed theology, and you might reach the...
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Like Families and Soccer Teams: Church and Parachurch
“I give and give all week. I just want to come to church to be ministered to and fed.” Perhaps you’ve heard a friend who works in a parachurch ministry say something like this. Perhaps you’ve said it...
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False Freedom and the Slavery of Autonomy
You are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear. — Tim Keller on Twitter, July 29, 2013 I hate going to restaurants with large...
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Dear Donald Miller
You don’t know me, but I’ve been a fan of your book Blue Like Jazz since I read it a few years ago. It draws from a worldview perspective I do not share, but taken on its own terms, it’s a work of art....
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Saved by a Community for Community
We live in a world that’s becoming more and more connected. From Facebook to Twitter to texting, we are “closer” to each other than ever before. Smartphones and social networking provide instantaneous...
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Is Church Membership Really Required?
This month we will be inducting new members into the most honored body the world has ever known: the church of Jesus Christ. The initiation fee for this club is so high that no human could have ever...
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