Last week, I took up the first part of the membership process, namely the membership application and class. Today, I want to finish up the membership process by taking up the interview and congregational vote. It goes without saying that these processes are always being evaluated and subject to change as we look to discover [...]
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Monday is for “kingly” administration: The Membership Process, Part 1
May 31, 2010There are four major components of what I call the “Commission Continuum”–that is the metaprocess of kingly administration from beginning to end. Those four components are assimilation, membership, discipleship, and leadership. I just completed the first component of the assimilation process and want to address the membership process in a couple of blogposts. Once regular [...]
Monday is for “kingly” administration: The Assimilation Process, Part 4 (Prospective Members)
May 24, 2010The Assimilation Process: Part 1: First-Time Guest Part 2: New Believers Part 3: Regular Attenders The fourth and final aspect of the assimilation process is the prospective member (I will launch into the membership process next). Membership in a local church may be a difficult thing for some attenders, especially if they think that it [...]
The Church Consumer
March 23, 2010Now I know this video is somewhat silly, and I assume intentionally so (to make the point). The question I think worth asking is, “Does the culture in my church accommodate, encourage, or tolerate this kind of perspective about the church?” HT :: Phil Awtry
This Week at Sowing Grace (6)
December 22, 2008The following posts were made available at Sowing Grace this past week: Sunday: n/a Monday: Monday Is for Membership: Gospel Saturated, Part 2 Tuesday: Missional Moleskine (Journaling) [Cultivating Community Contacts, Part 8] Wednesday: n/a Thursday: Atheist Penn Jillette on Hating Unbelievers Friday: Fuel Friday: Acts 29 Boot Camp (Dallas) Saturday: Never Empty Your Brain of [...]
This Week at Sowing Grace (3)
November 23, 2008The following posts were made available at Sowing Grace this past week: Sunday: Paul’s Prayer to the Ephesian Church Monday: Monday Is for Membership: Biblical Theologian, Part 1 Tuesday: Developing Missional Patterns (Cultivating Community Contacts, Part 4) Wednesday: Leadership in the Early Church (study in Acts) Thursday: Greatness Redefined (chapter 3) Friday: Fuel Friday: Church [...]
Steve Lemke on Bethlehem Baptist Church, Baptism, and Church Membership
October 14, 2008Steve Lemke is not a fan of Together for the Gospel. The second half of his article is entitled, “Baptists and Presbyterians Not Together: Nine Marks Which Separate Baptists from Presbyterians,” where Lemke lays out his argument for Baptist separation (or, as I would argue, isolation). Interestingly enough, his first two marks are “soul competency” [...]
Dangerous Is the State of Unregenerate Church Membership
May 22, 2008Mark Dever, in his book Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, explains how dangerous the perpetuation of unregenerate church membership is for the “inactive” member. He writes: If the church is a building, then we must be bricks in it; if the church is a body, then we are its members; if the church is [...]
Hurting for the Gospel
April 25, 2008From a roundtable discussion with Ed Stetzer this past week (video by Chris Elrod): HT :: Thorn
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