What Is Church Membership?

Sermon Notes - What Is Church Membership?

Main Point: Church membership is the relationship between a church and a Christian, initiated by baptism and continually reaffirmed by the Lord’s Supper, marked by accountability, submission, and love, in Christ.

-Church Membership (Acts 2:37-47)

  -Biblical

  -Loving

  -Assuring

  -Glorifying to God

-Baptism (Romans 6:1-4)

  -Credible Profession of Faith

  -Readiness for Church Membership

-The Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 10:16-17)

-Church Discipline (Matthew 18:15-20)

  -Private Confrontation

  -Semi-Private Confrontation

  -Churchwide Confrontation

  -Excommunication

  -Goal: Repentance, Reconciliation, and Restoration