Brad Newbold

Author of "The Fear Protocol"

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).

Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.

Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.

Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.

Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.

Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.

Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@NWhite_GA Required reading for a class with Dr Renihan. Really appreciated it!

[No Escalators @NoEscalators]

As someone who has watched Flo Balogun play 2.5 soccer games:

I would die for Flo Balogun

[Terrible Quality Memes @BadQualityMemes]

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[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@pastorgrumbles @TomHicks2LCF @DrJordanBCooper I agree with your word "necessary." Do you think its "possible", however?

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@lukestamps I just finished the 4th draft of my next novel and I have lost all perspective on it. Thankfully the publisher still loves it!

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@Phil_Johnson_ May I please have all of the books?

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@FFPERK @brandon_adams exactly!

[jess ⚡️ @JessNoFace]

as a soccer fan of 3 weeks it is unforgivable what these refs are doing to our beautiful game

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

“The mantra *semper reformanda* is usually taken, without any discussion, to mean that those in the Reformed tradition should be active in seeking doctrinal revision and new departures in theology.

However, the phrase was originally, ‘The church is reformed and always being reformed according to the Word of God.’

What it means is that the church should continually reform its life and witness by reference to the theological principles of the Reformation and, of course, of Scripture.”

- Paul Helm

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@spencer_askew Both Ewok movies are awesome!
(throw in Willow for good measure!)

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@tomthie55en Practicing at home is good for everyone, too.

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

Ninety-Three

https://t.co/TMINkxAJ0E

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@spencer_askew @sherwudforest "God only knows" is a perfect song.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Therapist: “Your wife says you never buy her flowers…is that true?”

Husband: “To be honest, I never knew she sold flowers.”

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@brandon_adams Interestingly, he ends with a rough handling of Ephesians 4:2

[Brandon Adams @brandon_adams]

The first deacons in Acts 6 were appointed to fulfill a task that the apostles were being asked to perform.

Were the apostles conducting the daily distribution themselves? No, and they were not asked to.

[Brad Newbold @Babble_GPT]

@Curi_Christian Passion is tied to the same idea as "passive". God is not blown about by outside influences like we are. that is what is meant by God without passions.