Episode 149: On Cleaning the Membership Rolls - Part 1 (with Matt Schmucker)

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Some churches report hundreds of members, with dozens in attendance. These churches need to “clean their rolls.”

Jonathan Leeman chats with Mark Dever and Matt Schmucker about what that means and why churches should do it.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jonathan Lehman.
0:10.8	What did you use to say when you did this, Matt?
0:14.6	And I'm here with Matt Schmucker and Matt Schmucker.
0:18.7	Welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:21.4	It's clearly going to be good.
0:23.0	Also with Mark Deaver.
0:26.3	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches.
0:31.3	Learn more at nine marks.org.
0:33.7	One of the favorite weekender events is the timeline that you two, Matt and Mark tell about the story of reform here at Capitol Hill Baptist that you both walked through together.
0:48.3	And a crucial part of that is the quote unquote cleaning the rolls.
0:53.3	Okay, okay, okay.
0:54.0	Okay.
0:54.1	Imagine that you're on the jet with me and the rolls. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
0:57.1	Imagine that you're on the jet with me and we go to Kansas, okay?
1:01.0	But we get there by going to Kansas City, which is in Missouri, not Kansas.
1:02.9	Some politicians seem to be confused about.
1:09.9	Anyway, we land in Kansas City, Missouri, and we go to the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and they have a whole library dedicated
1:12.5	Charles Spurgeon and all of his stuff.
1:14.3	I've seen it.
1:14.9	It's beautiful.
1:15.1	The brother who runs that is Jeff Chang.
1:17.3	He used to be on staff here.
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