1. Local Church Membership
Our Individual Responsibility in the Local Church
Universal Sense
Matthew 16:18
Specific Sense (local church or congregations)
1 Cor 1:2; 1 Thes 1:1; Rev 1:4; Acts 2:46-47; 11:26

2. Should I Be a Member of a Local Church?
Saul was (Acts 9:26-28)
Peter was (1 Peter 5:1)
Why must a Christian join himself with other Christians?
To benefit from each other
Acts 2:41-42
To admonish and be admonished
Hebrews 10:23-25

3. Should I Be a Member of a Local Church?
Why must a Christian join himself with other Christians?
Church discipline
Heb 12:6; 1 Cor 5:5; Matt 18:17
Responsible for promoting unity
1 Cor 1:10
God's
intent?
That every Christian join himself to a local church

4. Blessings of Local Church Membership
Fellowship in Worship
Eph 5:19; Col 3:16;1 Cor 11:26; Rom 11:2-4
Fellowship in Work
Working together for Christ
Blessings of Brotherly Love
Col 2:2; John 13:34-35

5. Local Church Membership is Our Responsibility
“from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
Ephesians 4:16
1 Corinthians 12:20-27
Have we done our part?