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Church membership viewed biblically is an obligation of discipleship and love that derives from being united with Christ by grace through faith, and from the discipline that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed to the church, to preserve its orderliness, purity and peace. For the purpose of caring for and strengthening this body, and for the cooperative action of all of its members, the grace of Christ provides leaders:

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rdfs:comment	Church membership viewed biblically is an obligation of discipleship and love that derives from being united with Christ by grace through faith, and from the discipline that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed to the church, to preserve its orderliness, purity and peace. For the purpose of caring for and strengthening this body, and for the cooperative action of all of its members, the grace of Christ provides leaders:
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abstract	Church membership viewed biblically is an obligation of discipleship and love that derives from being united with Christ by grace through faith, and from the discipline that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed to the church, to preserve its orderliness, purity and peace. Membership, in this sense, is assumed throughout the New Testament, and taught explicitly. For example, Paul teaches that Christians are members of one another as well of Christ, and that this unity is visible and practical in the church. He likens the visible church to a physical body of which Christ is the head, to which believers are joined and held together by love. ... we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. - (Romans 12:5)' ... speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. - (Ephesians 4:15, 16) For the purpose of caring for and strengthening this body, and for the cooperative action of all of its members, the grace of Christ provides leaders: ... he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ. - (Ephesians 4:11) This discipline is not optional to the Christian life, but is enjoined by the command of the word of God: Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls. (Hebrews 13:17) The apostle likens those outside of this government to children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. (Ephesians 4:14) These duties and privileges of love in the visible church, which constitute the orderliness and ministry of the church that is incumbent upon every member of Christ, might be represented in modern churches by customary conventions such as membership rolls, public profession, baptismal records, membership vows, congregational meetings, the privilege of voting, church courts, judicial procedures, and the like. It is easy to be misled by such human, mundane institutional and courtroom language, about the divine character and spiritual nature of church membership.

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