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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...

Most evangelical Christians today, if pressed, will acknowledge that autonomous individualism is not the way of biblical Christianity. The vast majority would presumably acknowledge that Christians need some type of fellowship or community. Yet most evangelical Christians, I suspect, are also indifferent toward the topic of church government or polity. And this suggests we might be more individualistic than we realize. Individualism, that sociologist’s cuss word,
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