{"id":2707,"date":"2012-01-18T11:14:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:14:43","slug":"why-church-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/why-church-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Church Membership?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DSC&#8217;s membership class, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/about\/kckc\/\">Knowing Christ, Knowing the Church (KCKC)<\/a><\/em>, is offered three times a year, and the spring session begins on Wednesday, February 1, from 6:30-8:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you are not a member at DSC and intentionally so. You aren&#8217;t certain membership is important for Christians or important for you specifically. Or maybe you are a member, but you&#8217;ve never really thought about what the Scriptures say about the nature of the church and our relationship to one another as Christians.<\/p>\n<p>All of us could take church membership more seriously, and for that reason, Nine Marks ministries has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9marks.org\/what-are-the-9marks\/membership\">a helpful video and summary<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in answer to the question, &#8220;What is church membership?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/10643113?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.9marks.org\/what-are-the-9marks\/membership\">click here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to view this video]<\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/about\/kckc\/\">KCKC<\/a><\/em>, we explore the foundation, nature, and purpose of what is at the heart of God, His Word, and God&#8217;s plan of salvation: the church of Jesus Christ. She has been purchased by the blood of Christ for a display of God&#8217;s glory.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the questions we explore in the class:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the foundation of the church?<\/li>\n<li>Why the church?<\/li>\n<li>What is the church?<\/li>\n<li>What does the church do; what are its purposes?<\/li>\n<li>What are the distinctives here?<\/li>\n<li>How does DSC operate; how is it led?<\/li>\n<li>Why join a church and what does it mean?<\/li>\n<li>How do I get involved?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about DSC&#8217;s membership class, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/about\/kckc\/\">KCKC Page<\/a>. To sign up, fill out a Communication Card on Sunday, email info@desertspringschurch.org, or call the church office at 505.797.8700. This class is not just for those pursuing church membership, but for anyone interested in getting better\u00c2\u00a0acquainted\u00c2\u00a0with DSC or the gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSC&#8217;s membership class, Knowing Christ, Knowing the Church (KCKC), is offered three times a year, and the spring&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/why-church-membership\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}