Does your church emphasize, encourage, and value membership? In many places the notion of church membership has fallen out of favor. Rick Warren thinks that is a "serious mistake."
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Speaking this morning at the Radicalis conference at Saddleback Church, Pastor Rick challenged pastors to rediscover the importance of commitment to a local church through radical membership. "Membership is a word that has been perverted and abused," said Warren. "It's not putting your name on a roll. It's not about knowing the insider lingo. That's not what membership is all about."
Using Scripture to show the importance of commitment to a local congregation, Warren said membership was about being "a member in the Body of Christ." And therefore membership is "organic not organizational."
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