dual-church-membership
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Dual Church Membership #6 – Tends towards consumerism
There’s nothing wrong with being involved in two Christian fellowships. We’re all one in Christ Jesus and enjoy a deeper fellowship with Christians we’ve never meet than we do with our own family (if they’re not Christian). But in light… Continue reading
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Dual Church Membership #5 – Just complicated
Because Jesus gives leaders to his people, he expects his people to submit to his leaders. And that just makes the whole dual church membership really hard to work out in practice. How do you truly follow two groups of… Continue reading
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Dual Church Membership #4 – Who’s responsible?
So Jesus appoints leaders (undershepherds) to his local fellowships of believers. The Holy Spirit is involved in all these points. The Holy Spirit is given by Jesus to his people The Holy Spirit binds Jesus people to him in union… Continue reading
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Dual Church Membership #3.5 – Not talking about Groups within Groups
Churches have various groups within them, and you could call each of these groups a little church. But that’s not what we’re talking about. That’s not dual church membership. If you are part of a Growth Group, that Growth Group… Continue reading
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Dual Church Membership #3 – Any multi fellowships?
So even though there’s no examples of explicit dual church membership in the NT, there are some points where multiple fellowships interact that could be helpful in thinking through dual-church membership. Paul’s partnership with the Philippians In Phil 4 Paul… Continue reading
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Dual church membership #2 – Why nothing
So why isn’t there anything in the bible about dual church membership? Well most of the churches were made up of the ONLY Christians in that area. There was THE church in Ephesus, THE church in Corinth, etc. They didn’t… Continue reading
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Dual church membership #1 – Nothing about it
So I’m going to share some thoughts on the topic of dual church membership; the idea of trying to be part of two local expressions of Jesus’ family at the same time. I’ll do it over a few posts tagged… Continue reading
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