Belonging is What God Wants for His People!
God has made each of us with a desire to belong. We have been made for a relationship with our Creator, and our desire for relationships with people mirror that deeper need to know and love Him.
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Membership: a Way to Flesh Out Commitment
At the same time that CCC provides arenas for receiving friendship, we also encourage the church family to be committed to one another; relationships are built of both receiving and giving. In light of this we urge people who plan to stay in the area to become members.
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New Testament Passages on Church Membership
Now it's true that the Scriptures don't explicitly require what we today call membership. But the New Testament does give us precedents for membership and metaphors for the local church.
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New Testament Metaphors for the Church
Two Scriptural analogies for the church also support the concept of membership: the "body" and the "family". Just as every living body is made of living, mutually interdependent cells, so Christ's Body consists of interdependent people who should be committed to serving one another.
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CCC Requirements for Membership
Our local church requires the following steps for believers who wish to make this step in their Christian walk:
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