The NXR Podcast - March 30, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - There Is No Bible Verse That Commands Church Membership, But…

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Joe Biden
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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

161.12

Word count

883

Sentence count

36

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

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Summary

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The church is the final ecclesiastical earthly court for rendering a righteous judgment in regards to the alleged and penitent sinner for either loosing or keeping. And without church membership, formal local church membership is the only way to determine who is the church and who is not.

Transcript

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00:00:00 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:10 Praise God for you and that endeavor.
00:00:13 However, algorithms are a thing.
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00:00:42 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. And without church membership, formal local church membership,
00:00:55 do you know how you determine who is the church attendance it's mere attendance apart from church
00:01:03 membership and there actually being a process then the only way to truly determine who is the church
00:01:11 is who shows up which means all of you who are joining us for the first sunday apparently i'm
00:01:17 your pastor you haven't even determined if you like me you probably have determined you don't
00:01:22 like me but the point is i'm your pastor because you're here and if we had a church discipline
00:01:27 case going on right now you'd be privy to it and you don't even know their name
00:01:32 you don't even know who these people are and we don't even know if you're regenerate
00:01:39 we don't even know if you're a christian but you're the church and the church is the final
00:01:47 ecclesiastical earthly court for rendering a righteous judgment in regards to the alleged
00:01:52 and penitent sinner for either loosing or binding removing or keeping and so you're going to be
00:02:00 making this decision but you don't know who we are we don't know who you are but we need the church
00:02:05 and the only way to determine the church is who shows up unless crazy idea i know unless there was
00:02:14 like like a process outside of mere sunday morning attendance where people showed up if they had
00:02:23 interest and you talked about practically and theologically what it meant to belong in covenant
00:02:29 to this particular local church and and you got to as elders meet with them and determine their
00:02:35 testimony they could make a a credible proclamation of faith so that you know at least god sees the
00:02:43 heart. We look at the outward appearance, but we could at least do our due diligence to see whether
00:02:47 or not this person is in fact a Christ follower. They could also ask questions of the leaders of
00:02:52 the church to determine, do we agree with this church's mission, its vision, its doctrine? And
00:02:58 then you could have some kind of formal mutual agreement where they say, here I am, shepherd me.
00:03:04 And you say, I will take you as a part of my flock, that I have spiritual responsibility
00:03:10 for shepherding and we maybe even sign like a like a church covenant or something like that
00:03:15 you just invented church membership
00:03:18 so again no verse in the bible that says thou shalt be a church membership but there are plenty
00:03:26 of verses in the bible that says this is what it looks like to obey jesus practically
00:03:29 not just theoretical obedience to jesus but practical real obedience to jesus and these
00:03:36 practical examples of real obedience to Jesus assume a way of knowing who's a part of this
00:03:42 community and who's not and mere attendance does not suffice and that is my thesis that's church
00:03:50 membership can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end look some of you
00:03:55 guys you're financially supporting this ministry and from the bottom of my heart I say thank you
00:04:01 I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact,
00:04:08 some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's
00:04:13 ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last 0.97
00:04:22 three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if
00:04:30 people change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.
00:04:37 Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support
00:04:43 financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
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