As before noted, the Baptist Church did not hold that either baptism or church membership was necessary to salvation; but that "salvation" was first necessary before one was scripturally entitled to either baptism or church membership.
Second, it does not hold that baptism is essential to salvation, but that it is to church membership.
It had no doctrinal standard or test of religious faith as a condition of church membership.
Only so can the fundamentals of religion and the duties of church membership be intelligently grasped.
Nor should ranking in the club be conditioned on church membership.
A constitution was adopted which restricted the suffrage to church membership.
The commissioners visited Boston in July, 1664, where they obtained troops and demanded the repeal of the law which restricted the franchise to church membership.
The doctrine that baptism is not essential to church membership is simply the logical result of the previous practice of admitting unbaptized persons to the communion table.
If the highest privilege of church membership may be enjoyed without baptism, baptism loses its place and importance as the initiatory ordinance of the church.
As early even as 1711, the Hartford North Association suggested some reformation in the Half-Way Covenant practice because it noted that persons, lax in life, were being admitted under its terms of church membership.
Thirty-five churches have a larger Sunday school enrollment than resident church membership; all nine churches helping with Union Sunday schools have a smaller membership than the Union school enrollment.
The total enrollment of all country Sunday schools, including the Union schools, is more than three times as high as church membership.
But in any case Christian America is not Christian even in church membership.
I have no intention of joining them, and yet I am much bewildered over this matter of church membership.
I have carefully read it through twice, and I cannot see that it has helped me at all to decide about my church membership.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "church membership" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
