What is the Pointe of Church Membership
An Overview “Members Only” “Membership Club” “Membership Rewards” “Member dues” Everywhere we turn, we are bombarded by someone asking us to join something or support a cause, from email to junk mail, from television to pop-up ads, from political groups to social media. The pull can come from even those we are closest to, like family, wedding showers, or our children’s friend’s birthday party. The pull to join can lead us to become like the proverbial mule who found himself between two haystacks, completely unable to decide which one to eat first. As a result of indecision, the poor mule didn’t eat either one, standing between the two until he starved to death. While we hopefully are more decisive than an old mule, the demands of today’s life can leave us stretched so thin that if someone asks us to do one more thing, we might just burst like an over-inflated balloon. The series “Making Membership More Meaningful” ...