Committing to One Another: Church Membership
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A series of ten 6–7 week studies covering the nine distinctives of a healthy church as originally laid out in Nine Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever. This series explores the biblical foundations of key aspects of the church, helping Christians to live out those realities as members of a local body. Conveniently packaged and accessibly written, the format of this series is guided, inductive discussion of Scripture passages and is ideal for use in Sunday school, church-wide studies, or small group contexts.
Bobby Jamieson
Bobby Jamieson (PhD, University of Cambridge) serves as an associate pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. He previously served as assistant editor for 9Marks. Jamieson and his wife have four children.
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Committing to One Another - Bobby Jamieson
INTRODUCTION
What does the local church mean to you?
Maybe you love your church. You love the people. You love the preaching, the singing. You can’t wait to show up on Sunday, and you cherish fellowship with other church members throughout the week.
Maybe the church is just a place you show up to a couple times a month. You sneak in late, duck out early.
We at 9Marks are convinced that the local church is God’s plan for displaying his glory to the nations. And we want to help you catch and live out that vision, together with your whole church.
The 9Marks Healthy Church Study Guides are a series of six- or seven-week studies on each of the nine marks of a healthy church
plus one introductory study. These nine marks are the core convictions of our ministry. To provide a quick introduction to them, we’ve included a chapter from Mark Dever’s book What Is a Healthy Church? with each study. We don’t claim that these nine marks are the most important things about the church or the only important things about the church. But we do believe that they are biblical and therefore are helpful for churches.
So, in these studies, we’re going to work through the biblical foundations and practical applications of each one. The ten studies are:
Built upon the Rock: The Church (the introductory study)
Hearing God’s Word: Expositional Preaching
The Whole Truth about God: Biblical Theology
God’s Good News: The Gospel
Real Change: Conversion
Reaching the Lost: Evangelism
Committing to One Another: Church Membership
Guarding One Another: Church Discipline
Growing One Another: Discipleship in the Church
Leading One Another: Church Leadership
Each session of these studies takes a close look at one or more passages of Scripture and considers how it applies to the life of the whole church. So, we hope that these studies are equally appropriate for Sunday school, small groups, and other contexts where a group of anywhere from two to two-hundred people can come together and discuss God’s Word.
These studies are mainly driven by observation, interpretation, and application questions, so get ready to speak up! We also hope that these studies provide opportunities for people to reflect together on their experiences in the church, whatever those experiences may be.
Most people think church membership is like membership in a club. If you want a few extra benefits, or you aspire to be a leader someday, you should sign up. If not, you should feel free to come and go as you please. After all, church membership isn’t in the Bible, is it?
What do you think? Is church membership biblical? Does it matter?
This study argues that church membership is biblical, that every Christian should be a member of a church, and that church membership makes a profound difference in the Christian life.
We begin with our need for church membership. Sin is deceitful, and we need to be truly accountable to others.
Next we consider the mandate for membership. After all, if church membership isn’t biblical, it can’t be anything more than optional. But we think that after carefully considering Scripture, you’ll see that Jesus expects every Christian to be a committed member of a local church.
The next three sessions look at the goal, the challenges, and the nature of church membership. What are we working toward as church members? What are some of the roadblocks? And what exactly does it mean that we are members of one