Tag: Church Membership

• Is Church Membership Really Required?

  by Ricky Jones This month we will be inducting new members into the most honored body the world has ever known: the church of Jesus Christ. The initiation fee for this club is so high that no human could have ever paid it; God himself had to pick up the tab. The benefits of the…

  Dennis Griffith

  April 1, 2014

  Church

  Church, Church Membership, Living in Community, Spiritual Community

• Church Consumerism

  Wow! In this message Matt Chandler rants against the consumeristic climate catered to and cultivated by the contemporary Evangelical culture… I wish I had said this! OK, I have said this.  I just wish I had said it as well as Matt does!

  Dennis Griffith

  December 6, 2011

  Church, Evangelical

  Church, Church Consumerism, Church Membership, Consumer Christianity, Evangelicalism, Matt Chandler, Me Church

• When People Go

  Let’s face it, it is one of the bummers of being in ministry – or for that matter, of being a part of a church. While death and taxes may be among life’s inevitables,  sadly, if you are part of a church, so is periodically watching people go out the doors. With the Wal-Martization of…

  Dennis Griffith

  November 30, 2011

  Church, Ministry

  9 Marks, Church, Church Hoppers, Church Membership, Church Shoppers, Jonathan Leeman, Leaving a Church

• Practical Difference Makers

  One of the vows folks are required to affirm if they are to become a member of our church – or a member of any church in the PCA, for that matter – is: Do you promise to support the Church in its worship and work to the best of you ability? This seems simple enough.…

  Dennis Griffith

  August 7, 2010

  Church, Ministry

  Church, Church Membership, Church Membership Vows, Kevin DeYoung, Ministry of the Church, Supporting Your Church