It affects how you use the time on Sunday morning. It affects how you use your wealth. It affects the way you interact with others, and the others with whom you interact. Christians are called to solidarity with the poor, the orphaned, the widowed, and the oppressed. B ecoming Christian is not just costly though.
Faith is an invitation to a life-long dance with grace.
Sometimes that dance will sweep each and every one of us off of our feet. A s this church moves into its future we need to consider the cost we want to place on membership and the level of commitment we expect. Trinity needs to make membership mean something by stating clearly certain behaviors that we expect of all members of the church, including those who have been here since 1942. The practices of faith that we expect of our members could be any of a couple of dozen things. A few years ago I put such a list of membership requirements before a Sunday School class.