For much of my ministry, I have held the opinion that I wanted to treat everyone who attended my church with equal respect and honor. I still believe that this is admirable BUT I now wonder if I was not short-changing people by not emphasizing more of the benefits of becoming a member of the local congregation.

Check out the MediaFire website to download a series of 5 messages that I preached during the month of November on the subject of local church membership.

These files are all MS Word (.doc) files. If you do not have the MS Word program (or a compatible word processing program) installed on your computer, you can download the Word viewer program from Microsoft here.

A better alternative might be to download the OpenOffice.org suite here.
This suite of programs is absolutely FREE and includes applications that are very similar to the MS Office suite and DOES read & write to the Microsoft formats (including Word’s .doc format).

be blessed & be a blessing…
Ray