The Importance of Church Membership

Jason Seville a pastor in china Observes that church membership isn't just a useful tool in the pastoral tool belt It's the tool belt itself. If you don't have an agreed upon list of who it is that takes the Lord's Supper, then you don't really have any kind of distinct community to shepherd and pray for. I think generally people are thinking of top down Uh, I I think it also be abusive from bottom up.