Church Membership

Doctrine and Devotion

Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joe and Jimmy talk about the merits of church membership. What is it? Is it biblical? Why do some push back against it? And what's the benefit of church membership? Plus, Jimmy pokes Shai Linne.

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0:19.0	Welcome to Dr and Devotion, a podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne, I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles, Illinois.
0:22.0	And I'm Jimmy Fowler, of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois.
0:22.8	And I'm Jimmy Fowler.
0:24.3	Maybe elder candidate at Redeemer Fellowship.
0:26.3	Maybe full elder.
0:27.8	And maybe disbarred?
0:30.0	You could be, you could be pulled.
0:31.4	Is that called disbarred?
0:32.2	No. No. No. Just, there's nothing like that.
0:37.0	If for some reason you were pulled out of or denied to become an elder, you would just not be anything.
0:45.7	You just not be an elder candidate anymore, it would just stop.
0:47.8	It wouldn't be like an officially bad thing, you know, unless you really messed up in Runderchurch discipline.
0:54.3	Yeah.
0:55.3	Mm-hmm.
0:56.3	So, yeah.
0:57.3	What?
0:58.3	No, I have a joke in my head, but I know I can't say it.
1:00.8	Okay, well then don't say it.
1:01.8	I know, that's why I'm not.
1:03.0	Go.
1:04.0	All right. Now you've got some big stuff going on here real soon.
1:07.0	Yep, pretty soon heading on over to Disney World with the family.
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