Belonging
This past Friday, Beth Schlueter and I had the privilege of leading a workshop and sharing with about 70 people the whole idea behind membership, that it has to do with three things, actually—three stages that we go through in becoming disciples of Jesus Christ (because membership really = discipleship). Those three stages that we go through I call the ‘Three Bs.” So, becoming disciples involves: Belief Behavior Belonging Belonging is where we want to get people to … but they have to go through a process first—a process of...

