Belonging to Christ, Belonging to His Church: The Biblical Necessity of Local Church Membership
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The selected sources present a unified biblical defense of local church membership, arguing that formal covenanting is not a meritorious work for salvation but the ordinary, necessary expression of belonging to Christ. Both texts strongly counter the hyper-individualism and rampant consumerism of our contemporary culture, which treat the local church as an optional, voluntary service provider rather than the blood-bought, covenantal body of God.
The first source exposits 1…
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