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which can be found in Planting Churches among the City’s Poor: An Anthology of Urban Church Planting Resources ). These items will prove useful as you study the positions and commitments of Anyname Church.

May God bless you richly as you study together the life and ministry of Anyname Fellowship Church!

The Elders and Pastors of Anyname

Welcome to the Family: Membership Responsibilities and Leadership

Lesson One: Joining Our Body

• What does it mean to become a member of a church? • Can you be a Christian and not be a member of the Church? Explain. • What is baptism? What role does it play in becoming a member of a church? • What difference, if any, does joining a church make in one’s personal discipleship and ministry?

I. What do you think it means to become a member of a local church?

II. Is attending a church on Sunday the same thing as being a member of its family? Explain.

III. How do the following Scriptures help us understand the importance of being a member of the body of Christ?

A. Heb. 10.24-25 (NASB) – And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 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. B. Rom. 12.4-8 (NASB) – For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. And since we have gifts that differ

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