1. Biblical Church Membership

2. Lesson 8 Benefits -enjoying the fruits of biblical church membership-

3. What is fellowship?

4. Doctrinal Context Edifying Nature

5. Ephesians 4:15 …speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ….

6. Titus 3:10-11 Reject a factious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

7. 2 John 1:10-11 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.

8. Ephesians 4:11-16 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ….

11. Ephesians 3:10 …so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church ….

12. Romans 1:21-23 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks …and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man….

13. John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.

14. John 17:22-23 The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

16. 1 Timothy 3:15 I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

18. 1 John 3:18-20 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us….