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122 - Declining Church Membership Thomas Balzamo, Daniel Fox

Today on RTP, is church membership really in drastic decline? Why do people attend but will not join a church? And what is the root sin?

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Scriptures verses cited: 1 John 2:19

New research on church membership

An argument for membership

“Sin is essentially selfishness. It is difficult to determine what the essential tial principle of sin is. What makes man sin? Is it pride, unbelief, disobedience, ence, or selfishness? Scripture teaches that the essence of godliness is love of God; is not the essence of sin the love of self?” - Henry C. Thiessen. Lectures in Systematic Theology.

Aftershow verses cited: James 1:25, Hebrews 3-4, Numbers 13.

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