Membership Sunday is a favorite Sunday where our congregation accepts new people into fellowship and hears testimony from them. Pastor Phil Kniss said this, but then went on to say that he struggles with the idea of church membership. The struggle is about the dissonance between what scriptures like Matthew 18:15-22, Romans 12:3-5, 9-11, and Hebrews 10:15-22 sa, and how e live out church membership. The farther we get from table-sized groups, the more difficult it is to hold church membership ...
Membership Sunday is a favorite Sunday where our congregation accepts new people into fellowship and hears testimony from them. Pastor Phil Kniss said this, but then went on to say that he struggles with the idea of church membership. The struggle is about the dissonance between what scriptures like Matthew 18:15-22, Romans 12:3-5, 9-11, and Hebrews 10:15-22 sa, and how e live out church membership. The farther we get from table-sized groups, the more difficult it is to hold church membership to its true organic purpose. The challenge is to maintain accountability as a part of membership, not a rules-based accountability but accountability driven by love for other members. Can we keep accountability at a person to person level?
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