Membership
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?
The Lord has established for salvation to precede identification through baptism into membership, and then for those identifying markers to precede the ongoing celebratory act of the Lord’s Supper.
In 1856, the New Park Street Chapel was bursting at the seams. Since calling their pastor, C. H. Spurgeon, in...
God is wiser than man, and so we want to build our churches in accordance with the Scriptures.
Pastors need a working understanding of the issues of the day to apply God’s Word in their particular settings.
As with much technology, there is often more than meets the eye.
In the ordinances, the universal church becomes visible in local churches.
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?