Membership: The Biblical Basis for Local Church Membership

1. Discipline: You need to know whom to tell (Matt 18:17)

2. Excommunication: You need to know who is in and out (1 Cor 5:12)

3. Submission: You need to know whom to obey (Heb 13:17)

     a. From the perspective of the congregation

     b. From the perspective of the pastor