Building a Case for Church Membership: Discipleship and Group Study Edition - Softcover

Bills, Dennis Eldon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733728023 ISBN 13: 9781733728027

Publisher: ReformingWV Publications, 2019

Synopsis

"I am a Christian, but I don’t go to church. I don’t believe in organized religion."

"I go to church most Sundays, but I never joined. Never saw any need for it. Membership is just a tool or tradition anyway."

"I joined the church because . . .well, I don’t know why. It's just what Christians are supposed to do, I guess."

If statements like these are familiar, you know that strong arguments for church membership are not within reach of most pastors and laypersons. Building a Case for Church Membership finally puts a strong, bible-based case for church membership within the average person's hands through an easy-to-understand construction motif. Denominationally diverse reviewers describe it as "clear, accessible, charitable, biblical, theological, and pastoral," "practical, useful, and convincing," and "straightforward and sensible."

Formerly published as A Church You Can See: Building a Case for Church Membership (2017), this new edition has been revised for Sunday Schools, new member classes, church small groups, and one-on-one discipleship. Discussion questions have been added and the text is now more interdenominationally accessible.

About this title

About the Author

The Rev. Dr. Dennis Bills is a minister in the New River Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America.

Review

"Bills has crafted a worthwhile book on membership, especially for the regular attender who's not convinced he needs to join your church but is open to searching the Scriptures. As Bills writes, "[The case for church membership] has relied far too long on tradition and utilitarianism. It has needed to ground membership in Scripture" .... Bills indeed builds a biblical case for membership that is grounded in Scripture and accessible for all--Baptists and Presbyterians alike." - Justin Harris, writing for 9Marks.
"The book is short with an easy-to-visualize outline that builds on itself quite naturally on the metaphor of a building project. This helps the flow of the study and makes the argument seem to grow stronger chapter by chapter." - Bob Bixby, Redeemer Church, San Jose, CA

Edition details

• Publisher: ReformingWV Publications
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1733728023
• ISBN 13: 9781733728027
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 135