Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Membership

Lesson Title: The Mandate for Membership

Teacher: Adam Michael

Main Idea: Is church membership biblical? Yes! We see church membership in a number of passages in the New Testament which teach that: Churches have an “inside” and an “outside.” Church members are expected to know who does and does not belong to the church. Christians are under the authority of the church, such that if they persist in unrepentant sin, they are to be excluded from it. Christians are told to submit to their leaders, which means giving up our autonomy and putting ourselves under the church’s authority. Leaders will give an account for those entrusted to their care, which means that they have to know who those people are.