Benefits of Church Membership

          Benefits of Being Saved

We are part of an organization where we are supposed to receive support, approval, acceptance, and love.

We are part of an organization (the Kingdom of God) in which we have a personal relationship with our Creator and with others who have the same relationship (and also receive support, approval, acceptance, and love).

We are part of a group which desires (and in some cases imposes) certain behaviors of us which, hopefully, raise our standards.

We are part of a monarchy (i.e., we are to be God-ruled and NOT self-ruled) which demands certain behaviors of us as a method of worshipping God and witnessing to the lost (while raising our morals and improving our character).

We have the opportunity and obligation, through this group, to give to and serve others in our church and community.

We have an obligation (even as He grants us the freedom to disobey) to give to God and to others, and are required (again, with the freedom to rebel and sin) to live life with a servant attitude.

We have “ownership” (in that it is “our” church — the place where I am at home in my relationship to God) in an organization which is often respected in the community.

We are part of an organization that is owned by God and, if we live in a godly manner, is (or should be) respected in the community.

We can make contacts within the community and improve or sustain a certain “image.”

Because we are brothers and sisters, we are part of a family that cares for each other and allows us to be what we really are — heaven bound children of the King.

We can expect to receive services from the church.

We are alert to see what service God would have us give to the church and the community.

We expect all things in the church to suit our needs and personality.

We expect to adjust to others as we find Christ and grow in Him, and expect that these adjustments may be less than comfortable.

We expect the church to be a peaceful oasis free from cares and concerns.

We understand that the church is a place of preparation for spiritual warfare ... and sometimes becomes a target of Satan’s attacks on the Kingdom of God.