Church Membership Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Dallin H. Oaks, Heber J. Grant, Thom S. Rainer, Archibald Alexander Hodge and many others.
I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.
We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man’s way in this world.
I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.
The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership
Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God’s grace.
So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
