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NASB | 1 Peter 5:1 Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 5:1 Therefore, I strongly urge the elders among you [pastors, spiritual leaders of the church], as a fellow elder and as an eyewitness [called to testify] of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory that is to be revealed: |
Bible Question: I would like to know what does it mean to join a church? Are we not already a part of God's family when we recieve Christ into hearts? Why the joining of the church? I go to church and I really enjoy church, but recently I have been asked to join it I don't understand the meaning or pressing need to do that? I thought we where already family of God? and the Church is Jesus Christ as one body. |
Bible Answer: Truecalling: You have a right to be confused! The way "joining a church" is kicked around these days is confusing. There are two ways that "joining" a church is used. First, in Scripture. But there the word "joining" is not used, but "adding." Acts 2:47: "...And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved." At the moment of regeneration, believers become members of the body of Christ, His church. ..... The other meaning of "joining" has to do with becoming identified as a member of a specific local church. Different churches have different "rites of passage" as it were, i.e., conditions under which they receive members. It is quite possible to "join" a local church without having been "added" to the church, the body of Christ. That is another way of saying that joining a local church is not necessarily evidence of salvation, neither will it effect salvation. There is only one way to be saved, and that is by the grace of God through faith in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. --Hank |
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