2. Sermon Series:
Church As God Intended

3. The Membership Of The Church
Sermon:
The Membership Of The Church
Pastor Mike Pratt
July 30, 2017

4. Membership Is About Belonging

5. Membership Is About Belonging
So it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. -- Romans 12:5 (NLT)

6. Membership Is About Belonging
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. -- Hebrews 10:23–25 (ESV)

7. Membership Is About Sharing Ministry Goals

8. Membership Is About Sharing Ministry Goals
From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. -- Ephesians 4:16 (ESV)

9. Membership Is About Accepting Responsibility
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ… So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. -- Galatians 6:1–2, 10 (ESV)

10. Membership Is About Being Accountable
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

11. Membership Is About Being Accountable
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” - - Matthew 18:15–20 (ESV)