For many years I have wrestled with this question. What is being a Church Member? From my perspective being a church member at a local church involves much more than most would even think. It's not just being a faithful attender on Sunday morning or even being one who gives on a regular basis but its something much more deeper. Those are surface level things! Being a church member is being loyal and committed to Christ and committed to your fellow church family. It's being one who walks along side of you or one who calls you when your down. It's serving them without expecting anything in return. Its an unconditional love! 

     Our love for God should move us to love each other in this kind of way. After all we are His bride! We make up the Body of Christ! A Church member is one who is apart of something much bigger than themselves. We are apart of something that God adores and God is building up. Being apart of a Church family is about being apart of God's family! 

     Our motives and our actions have to be pure and they have to be about furthering the family of God! If we want to be a better Church member, we must be making church about God and His family. It's very easy in the local church to question these things and even begin to look at our own needs instead of the needs of our brothers and sisters. Church and being a church member is not really about us, Its about Him and His message. 

     If we want to build the church than we must allow God to build us and change our thinking and our ways of how we view Church and even view what it means to be a church member. 

     Matthew 16:24 says " Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any of you want to be my followers, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me." 

     Hebrews 10:24-25 says "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another."