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Don't Fire Your Church Members: The Case for Congregationalism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished. Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility...

That, in fact, is one of the most important arguments of this book. The trunk and branches of church government grow out of the seed of the gospel. The gospel makes certain demands on the saints and their togetherness. Certain matters of organization are elastic and context dependent, but the fundamentals of church order are inextricably tied to the gospel faith. For instance, this book will argue that the gospel establishes a rule of equals. Yes, different jobs will be assigned in that society.
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