"Membership" Tagged Sermons
Paul’s argument in Romans 10 quietly turns Joel’s ‘call on the name of the Lord’ into calling on the name of the Lord Jesus, and turns calling itself into confession. That shift is not incidental wordplay; it is the whole structure of the gospel compressed into two verses. What it demands is a heart that actually matches what the mouth confesses.
Obedience to Christ, this sermon argues, cannot actually happen outside the church; Scripture settles the church’s necessity rather than leaving it open for debate. John 13:31-38 and 15:1-12 are read together for three specific things they say about loving fellow believers. Church membership is inseparable from loving obedience itself.