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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...

mean by church “membership.” Simply stated, church membership is a formal commitment to a local church. In other words, it is a covenant between an individual and the local church.2 This covenant should affirm that the new member has made a credible profession of faith, that the church is committed to shepherd the new member, and that the new member is committed to meet regularly with the church and obey its leadership.3 In the early church the inclusion of new members would have taken place at baptism,
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