The NXR Podcast - March 30, 2023


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


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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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