Twenty-three percent of churchgoers bounce from church-to-church—and Millienials (ages 25–40) rank highest in this church-jumping habit.
While this may seem like a modern take on church membership, this could reveal a misunderstanding of the God-designed way church should be lived out—the potential outcome when church membership isn’t rightly valued.
Our views on church membership—whether we realize it or not—impact our role in magnifying God’s name to the world.
When we understand our role and responsibility to a local church, it’ll be reflected in how we live.
If we scan the Bible, we won’t find any mention of church membership. But what we do have is a pattern of rooting ourselves in biblical community with a local body of believers to magnify God woven throughout the pages of Scripture.
The church is a melting pot of people coming together from all backgrounds, economic statuses, ages, and ethnicities with the common denominator of Christ.
When Christians who have no reason to invest into each other’s lives beyond Jesus, intentionally care for each other and people outside the church—even in small ways—this magnifies the gospel.
The local church exists to glorify the Lord in everything and church membership is how believers labor together to accomplish this.
But to understand the value and challenges of being a church member, we must first understand its nature.
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