http://afcmin.org/ateam/145/the-case-for-church-membership Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 http://afcmin.org/ateam/145/the-case-for-church-membership/comment-page-1#comment-484 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:52:54 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=145#comment-484 Garrett, interesting post. Church membership is not a popular idea in West L.A., but I think if more churches adopted it, there would be less of a problem with transience. People continually wander from church to church here and don't develop any roots or deep relationships.
I think of it being like marriage: when people make a formal commitment to a church they are much less likely to leave on a whim, and more likely to learn to work out differences with others–developing character and having a greater long-term impact on their communities. Church is like a family, and I don't think we do as well when we're just “living together.”
This isn't an argument from Scripture, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

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