Partnership
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Nights & Locations: All groups meet from 7 - 9 PM on the following nights
- Monday Night: Alan Ballard & Ryan Dehnert (Ballard Home)
- Tuesday Night: Rob Wilkerson & Jonathan Chambers (Chambers Home)
- Wednesday Night: Brice Fogle & Zach Gallman (Fogle Home)
- Wednesday Night: John Bohannan (Bohannan Home)
Material Cost: $10.00 (Partnership Manual)
Contact Email: churchintheboro@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 912.225-6453
Summary: Partnership is part of the Life Mission Group Church Planter's Core at Church in the Boro.
Description: Membership in the local church is something we take seriously...because the New Testament reflects a serious-mindedness about belonging to the church of Jesus Christ.
Though the concept of membership as we know it today in a 21st century, western-centered understanding is foreign to the New Testament, the concept of belonging is not. There seemed to be a clear understanding among the Christians of the first-century church that they belonged to the church...that they belonged to each other. There was never an understanding of the church as some organization or institution that belonged to them.
The church of Jesus all over the world has two kinds of reflections.
- First, it is reflected in individual believers who live like Jesus Christ.
- Second, it is reflected in a group of individuals who gather together to commit their lives to each other for the sake of the kingdom.
We believe that these reflections are the foundation for local church membership.
Everything we read in the New Testament was written to believers who belonged to each other in a group where commitment to each other was as common and ordinary as eating and drinking. Any and every issue addressed in the New Testament - practical or theological - was recorded and circulated among local churches. For example, if marriage is a picture of Christ's love for the church, as Paul writes in Ephesians 5, how else can a marriage exemplify that love if the marriage is not grounded in and committed to a local church? Also, consider spiritual gifts, a topic written about to a local church. How can a person truly know what their spiritual gift is and how to use it if they are not rooted in a local church?
Ultimately, the best and wisest reflection of the universal church is a group of local churches who are committed to gathering together to love each other and make disciples with a view to replicating themselves in others, and subsequently their local church in another city somewhere in the world.