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Becoming a member of a church is an important part of the Christian life. Yet, the trend these days is one of shunning the practice of organized religion and showing a distaste or fear of commitment, especially of institutions. In Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus, Jonathan Leeman addresses these issues with a straightforward explanation of what church membership is and...

come up again and again in our notes. The apostles proclaim it (2 Cor. 4:5; cf. Acts 17:3; John 20:31). They call it the way of salvation and the good news (Rom. 10:9; 1 Cor. 15:1–5; Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:3–12). And the Holy Spirit gives people the tongue to say it (1 Cor. 12:3). These Christians respect and defer to worldly authority to a point, but their ultimate allegiance is to Jesus. They call themselves “ambassadors in chains” and risk everything, even death. 2) Christians are ordinarily united
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