What is church membership and where do we see it in the bible?
“Officially” joining a local expression of the body of Christ identifies to whom you are willing to submit and come under the authority of in areas of teaching, correcting, training, and discipleship.
Scriptures to explore: Hebrews 13:17 | 1 Thessalonians 5:12-14 | 1 Peter 5:1-4 | Matthew 18:15-17 1 Corinthians 5:9-13
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Why Covenant?
5. In exercising the authority entrusted to him, the Lord Jesus, through the ministry of his Word, by his Spirit, calls to himself out of the world those who are given to him by his Father.9 They are called so that they will live before him in all the ways of obedience that he prescribes for them in his Word.10 Those who are called he commands to live together in locala societies, or churches, for their mutual edification and the fitting conduct of public worship that he requires of them while they are in the world.11
9John 10:16; John 12:32. 10Matthew 28:20. 11Matthew 18:15–20.