A good question: How much money do you give to evangelize unreached people across the world? A better question: Do your shepherds know the sheep on your own membership roll? Simply put, without membership a church can’t be healthy. It might be a true church, insofar as it preaches the gospel and the same Christians regularly gather and recognize one another. But its preaching—and everything else—will be weakened. Of course, no church is perfect. Having a membership class and practicing discipline