5 evidences of being a Good Church Member

What evidences should we look for in the members of our Churches being good representations of Christ and His body?

Paul helps us:-

“And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews 15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out.” (1 Thessalonians 2 v 13-15)

No notes, just headings, but each one worthy of some further thoughts.

1. They received the teaching of God’s Word not as coming from man but from God.

2. They welcomed the Word of God as an active agent working in their lives.

3. They patterned their lives on Jesus Christ and as a consequence willingly suffered for doing so.

4. They believed as a community; plural; together in God’s Word; hearing the voice of God together holding one another accountable. It was never meant to be singular.

5. The sufferings of Christ were mirrored in their lives in that it was their own tribe/family that persecuted them and so it was indeed personal but they held on. They paid the price.