The NXR Podcast - March 30, 2023


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


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5 minutes

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883

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35

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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.

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00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
00:00:01.900 Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry because you're spending your
00:00:05.900 cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
00:00:10.740 Praise God for you and that endeavor.
00:00:13.860 However, algorithms are a thing.
00:00:16.380 Shadow banning, sadly, is a thing.
00:00:19.000 And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and effectiveness of this ministry
00:00:24.160 that doesn't cost you a dime is by spending just a few moments leaving us a five-star
00:00:29.980 review. Also, perhaps even more effective than that, you can share our podcast with a friend.
00:00:36.560 We hope you'll take the time to do so. Thank you so much. God bless.
00:00:42.320 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47.420 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. And without church membership, formal local church membership,
00:00:55.760 do you know how you determine who is the church attendance it's mere attendance apart from church
00:01:03.840 membership and there actually being a process then the only way to truly determine who is the church
00:01:11.620 is who shows up which means all of you who are joining us for the first sunday apparently i'm
00:01:17.880 your pastor you haven't even determined if you like me you probably have determined you don't
00:01:22.880 like me but the point is i'm your pastor because you're here and if we had a church discipline
00:01:27.520 case going on right now you'd be privy to it and you don't even know their name
00:01:32.620 you don't even know who these people are and we don't even know if you're regenerate
00:01:39.540 we don't even know if you're a christian but you're the church and the church is the final
00:01:47.500 ecclesiastical earthly court for rendering a righteous judgment in regards to the alleged
00:01:52.620 and penitent sinner for either loosing or binding removing or keeping and so you're going to be
00:02:00.140 making this decision but you don't know who we are we don't know who you are but we need the church
00:02:05.900 and the only way to determine the church is who shows up unless crazy idea i know unless there was
00:02:14.940 like like a process outside of mere sunday morning attendance where people showed up if they had
00:02:23.100 interest and you talked about practically and theologically what it meant to belong in covenant
00:02:29.560 to this particular local church and and you got to as elders meet with them and determine their
00:02:35.960 testimony they could make a a credible proclamation of faith so that you know at least god sees the
00:02:43.060 heart. We look at the outward appearance, but we could at least do our due diligence to see whether
00:02:47.240 or not this person is in fact a Christ follower. They could also ask questions of the leaders of
00:02:52.780 the church to determine, do we agree with this church's mission, its vision, its doctrine? And
00:02:58.600 then you could have some kind of formal mutual agreement where they say, here I am, shepherd me.
00:03:04.360 And you say, I will take you as a part of my flock, that I have spiritual responsibility
00:03:10.300 for shepherding and we maybe even sign like a like a church covenant or something like that
00:03:15.940 you just invented church membership
00:03:18.280 so again no verse in the bible that says thou shalt be a church membership but there are plenty
00:03:26.000 of verses in the bible that says this is what it looks like to obey jesus practically
00:03:29.620 not just theoretical obedience to jesus but practical real obedience to jesus and these
00:03:36.000 practical examples of real obedience to Jesus assume a way of knowing who's a part of this
00:03:42.700 community and who's not and mere attendance does not suffice and that is my thesis that's church
00:03:50.840 membership can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end look some of you
00:03:55.520 guys you're financially supporting this ministry and from the bottom of my heart I say thank you
00:04:01.080 I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact,
00:04:08.200 some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's
00:04:13.780 ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last 0.97
00:04:22.800 three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if
00:04:30.200 people change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.
00:04:37.400 Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support
00:04:43.700 financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
00:04:50.980 I am asking you, please, if you're willing to do so, take one minute of your time. Leave us a
00:04:57.600 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, iTunes, Spotify, whatever that might be.
00:05:04.240 This is the way the system works. We want to be innocent as doves, but shrewd as vipers.
00:05:10.620 We need to be strategic. You leave us a five-star review and our podcast shows up for more people.
00:05:17.460 And the Word of God and courageous theology applied in practical ways to every realm of life
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