WHY BELONG TO A CHURCH?

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The Church has five basic functions:

1.  Worship

2.  Evangelism

3.  Fellowship

4.  Discipleship

5.  Ministry

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Scripture says:

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Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

                                                                                                            Ephesians 2:19-22

 

What does it mean to belong to a church family?

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1. The church is the body of Christ. (I Corinthians 12:12-27)

2. God expects you to be a member of a church family. (Romans 12:4-5)                               

3. A Christian is born again into the family of God. (John 1:12)

 

Whereas Jesus speaks of our being born again into the family of God (John 3:3), Paul uses the term adoption (Ephesians 1:5).  Both are pictures of the same spiritual reality—those who were outside the family being brought into the family.  Again, the emphasis is relationship—Father and child.

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A Christian without a church family is incomplete.

Council Baptist Church is made of born again, baptized believers, who regularly join together for worship, fellowship, and ministry.

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“Not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”  

                                                                                      Hebrews10:25