I read of a Southern Baptist Church in Florida which is growing through an internet membership. Despite concerns that those who are members via internet will not be able to really connect with the church, Flamingo Road Church is determined to make it work. They insist that they are, indeed, "faithful members" who interact with the church by watching videos and through onli...

The following comes from some of the notes from a membership class I did at a church plant in Virginia. It borrows heavily from the membership class of Capital Hill Baptist. First a consideration of "membership" in the Bible. There is no denying that the word "membership" is not in the Bible. However, the concept of church membership is certainly implied. How so? Whe...

Yesterday, Tim Challies wrote a post he called "The Worst Consequence of Skipping Church." In it he articulated something that I reminded the members of my previous churches often from the pulpit: "Sunday morning is not about having some one-on-one time with God, it is about the gathering of God's people together to worship Him as one, to encourage one another, and stir on...

"This ain't the South, this is Blacksburg." Such was my introduction to living in the New River Valley in Virginia. This neighbor of mine was expressing out loud what many of my neighbors must have been thinking to themselves when Michelle and I took the initiative to go door to door introducing ourselves to our new neighbors when we first moved in to town. I had comment...