Personally, I can see the guy's point, but it seems to me that setting up arbitrary rules for membership expiration raises more problems than it solves. What about invalids? What about debilitating illnesses? What about people who attend on Easter and Christmas and one or two other Sundays? If you're asking the membership to create the inevitable "Membership Committee" and determine who does and doesn't deserve membership aren't you creating a situation where members are pronouncing judgement on someone's faith? Maybe there's a way to deal with this by notifying the members after a certain period of time that they will be moved to an inactive list. Maybe there's some removal if there's no response to this, but it seems that we have to be careful to make sure that efforts to bring members back in to the fold are made in love.
I'm much more concerned with the member who attends every Sunday and flouts his disobedience the other six days of the week.
SEE THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE: http://blog.togetherforthegospel.org/2006/08/southern_baptis.html
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