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Those Who Must Give an Account: A Study of Church Membership and Church Discipline is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account.” --Hebrews 13:17a There is a surprising, even dangerous, gap in the literature on the church in the areas of church membership and church discipline. The former sets the boundaries of a leader’s responsibility, and discipline is the last option of a church when...

the world by God.”15 The term “called” (klētos) is found several times as a virtual synonym for ekklēsia. Paul describes the church in Rome as those who are “Jesus Christ’s by calling” and “called as saints” (Rom 1:6–7). The church in Corinth is said to be those who are “called as saints” (1 Cor 1:2). On the day of Pentecost, the gift of the Spirit is promised to all those entering the church, “as many as the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:39). The church comes into being in response to a divine
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