Jun
12
2008
In Church But Not In Christ
As you know, one of the main reasons I wrote Do I Know God was because I believe that one of the most strategic mission fields in the United States is the church. According to Jesus in Matthew 7:21-23, there will be many who go through life thinking they know God when in fact they don’t. This means that there are currently many people in church who aren’t “in Christ.”
This is why I was happy to read that the Southern Baptist Convention this week overwhelmingly adopted a resolution that urges churches to maintain accurate membership rolls and repent of any failure to do so.
The resolution on regenerate church membership would count believers who have been baptized and are born again while cleaning the rolls of inactive attendants…
My friend Steve jokes that, because of this discrepency regarding membership rolls in Southern Baptist churches, there are more Baptists in Texas than there are people. This resolution means Steve can’t say that anymore!
Read the whole report here.