What is church membership even for?

When should you come out as gay?

And why is the Bible so complicated?

These are the questions that my Patreon supporters

wanted me to address.

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That's Patreon.com forward slash theology and raw Support the show and you get access to premium content like this episode. Here's a one main reason why church membership can be a really good thing is that it helps the leadership

identify who they are spiritually responsible for. Membership helps the church leadership, the pastors, the teachers, the elders, the overseers,

to identify who they are spiritually responsible for.

And this was brought to life. who they are spiritually responsible for.

This was brought to light several years back

when a pastor friend of mine.

He didn't give me his permission

to mention his name, so I'll keep him anonymous.

You know who you are.

Pastor friend of mine was sitting down with a believer in the church and the believer was he was doing something that was I think

it was maybe going that kind of divorce his wife or maybe having an affair doing something

it was like just blatantly wrong.

And he had been at a church for a long time,

and been consistent, but involved in everything,

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