More Reasons to Join a Church

Join For Your Individual Health as a Christian

  • Join a church for your own spiritual protection.
    • We can't always read our own souls perfectly.  We can deceive ourselves, and we therefore need other people to help us walk as individual Christians (Jer 17:9; Ps 19:12).
    • The Bible speaks of people as sheep.  Sheep aren't meant to be wandering around on their own recognizance between folds.  Sheep are dumb.  We fall into ravines when we are by ourselves.  We need to be shepherded into folds. 
    • So we need to exercise the humility to view ourselves as sheep and submit ourselves to a local body of believers for mutual encouragement, protection, and examination.  It is our wisdom and safety to humbly stay with the flock and near a good shepherd who grazes, guides and guards us.
  • Join a church for your own spiritual assurance.
    • In joining a church, we are asking our church family to hold us accountable to live according to what we confess.  Membership in a local church is that congregation's public testimony that your life gives continual evidence of regeneration. 
    • In joining a church, we are taking hold of one another to know and to be known in mutual responsibility and care, so that we can make sure we are bearing the fruit of holiness, "without which no one will see the Lord" (Heb  12:14; cf. John 14:21; 15:10, 14).