Tag: membership

If we forget what our church manuals are for, we tend to institutionalize them, and they become calcified documents that are more of our judge than a tool for discipleship.

There is widespread acknowledgment of a crisis of church membership.

This covenant reminds the members of a church of their identity, character, mission, and responsibility to one another.

The following text is from the “Probationer’s Hand-book: Religious, Historical, Doctrinal, Disciplinary and Practical” by Rev. S. Olin Garrison, M.A. The handbook, also known...