Regenerate Church Membership

The idea of regenerate church membership comes from the biblical teaching that local churches are to be comprised of those who can legitimately lay claim to designations restricted to recipients of the new birth. All efforts to see churches grow and increase in membership should be governed by this principle so that the integrity of God’s saving power in the gospel can me maintained before a watching world. In other words, if their churches are to follow the pattern of those described in the New Testament, Baptists must insist that only genuine Christians are qualified to be members.

Tom Ascol | Pastor, Grace Baptist Church – Cape Coral, FL; President, Founders Ministries and The Institute of Public Theology