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Membership Class

Lesson 1 of 4

Introduction

You may wonder why there is a need to have a church membership class. GLCC membership class is designed to assimilate you into the congregation with regard to its doctrine and standard as well as to establish clear understanding of what is required of you if you decide to become a member of GLCC. Becoming a member is an act of commitment in worship, fellowship, service, evangelism and training

What is the Church?

Rom 12:4-5

Body of Christ; a living organism not an organization

What is the significance of Church Membership?

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Eph 2:19	It identifies a person as a believer
Gal 6:1-2, Heb. 10:24-25	It provides a spiritual family to support and encourage one another in the Christian walk
I Cor 12:4-27	It enables believers to discover their gifts and to use them in the ministry
Heb 13:17	It places them under the spiritual protection of godly leaders

What is GLCC?

God-honouring, Christ-centered and Bible-Believing Church

What we believe in:

o The plenary divine inspiration of the Scriptures in the original languages, their consequent inerrancy and infallibility and as the Word of God, the supreme and final authority in faith and life
o The one true eternal triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
o The essential deity and the real and proper, but sinless humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ
o The Lord Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is true God and true man
o The Lord Jesus Christ's substitutionary death in that He gave His life "a ransom for many"
o The resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ from the dead in the same body in which He was crucified and the second coming of the same Lord Jesus Christ, bodily, in power and in great glory
o That salvation is the effect of the sovereign grace of God in regeneration by the Holy Spirit and the Word, through faith, not of works
o The everlasting bliss of the saved, and the everlasting suffering of the loss
o The spiritual unity of all redeemed by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
o The necessity of maintaining, according to God's Word the purity of the Church, in doctrine and life
o That is unbiblical for a female to hold office as Pastor, Elder and Deacon in the Church
o The principle and practice of biblical separation


Why is there a need for biblical separation?

I Peter 1:16

God is holy. Holy - to separate. Separation is the foundational biblical command given to God's people based on God's holy nature.

o God's Word teaches that God's people ought to separate from every form of sin and unbelief, both in personal life as well as ecclesiastical association
o Joining together of sundry "Christians" and others in ecumenical union is unbiblical and abomination in the sight of God
o Members are required to be Bible-believing Christians, and loyal to God's command and therefore oppose all that is false and contrary to the truth of God's Word
o Members are to faithfully separate themselves from all forms of sin and unbelief and from any linkages or association with the ecumenical Movement or its associating or supporting bodies (eg. the Neo-Evangelical and the Charismatic Movements)
o Members are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, but to come out and be separate
o Members are to reprove and rebuke those who reject sound doctrines and to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, not to receive or welcome false teachers and to earnestly contend for the faith
o Members are to endeavor to uphold these principles of separation in love - love for Christ, His Church and those of His people who are unwittingly in unbiblical union

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................Finest Worship, Warmest Fellowship, Deepest Commitment, Fullest Training, Widest Evangelism

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