Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 26, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    RESPONSIBLE MEMBERSHIP
Author Jerry Bridges comments in an article on commitment, "As I have watched the parade of people through our church, and other churches, I wonder why so few commit themselves to a local body of believers in a significant way. Many sit and soak and do little else, and they
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 28, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Church Membership Vows
Will you ___________, take your church to be your church; to live together in the holy covenant of membership? Will you love, comfort, honor, and keep your church and be faithful to your church as long as you live?
Do you ___________, take your church to be your church, from
                    
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                    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 30, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Membership has its privileges!
   I carry a couple of cards in my wallet that give me certain privileges not available to the “general public.”  First is my “Sam’s Club” card.  It identifies me as a member at the warehouse superstore and enables me to purchase things for the church or at home for
                    
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                    Contributed by Fred Mueller on Oct 25, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A woman was attending a membership seminar in a Baptist Church.  On the questionnaire she wrote, "I was baptized in High School, but want to be - and she had
                    
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                    Contributed by Lynn Malone on May 11, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A candidate for church membership was asked, "What part of the Bible do you like best?" He said: "I like the New Testament best. Then he was asked, "What Book in the New Testament is your favorite?" He answered, the Book of the Parables, Sir." They then asked him to relate one of the parables to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS
What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Although the only person a man usually shops for is his wife, the whole experience is a stressful one. Many a man has felt extreme frigid temperatures for a long period based on a poor present decision. As a veteran of these wars, I’m still not sure
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2010
                
                
                
                    CHURCH-HOPPING STATS
Surveys show that as much as 85 percent of church membership growth is made up of people who church-hop. Other surveys show that there has been no real growth in church membership in recent
                    
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                    Contributed by Akinsanya Adubi on Sep 28, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TRUTH
I had a terrible experience with an advert on the television, I woke up and they told me that I can get one type of car for $100 and later they said I can get one house for $1000 but I have to join their group. The membership fee according to them is $99, but if I can call at that minute,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
                
                
                
                    Southern Baptist Convention churches have a total membership of 16,270,315 in the U.S., more than 5% of the nation’s
                    
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                    Contributed by John Raulerson on Oct 12, 2005
                
                
                
                    (Charles W. Colson, The Body, 1992, Word Publishing, p. 70.) 
Yet membership in a confessing body is fundamental to the faithful Christian life. Failure to do so defies the explicit warning not to forsake "our assembling together." His understanding of this prompted Martin Luther to say, "Apart
                    
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