Community Without Roll Call: Exchanging Freedom For a Contract (113)

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Community Without Roll Call: Exchanging Freedom For a Contract (113)
Jun 28, 2025 Episode 113
Mike Adams

Is signing a formal church membership contract a necessary expression of loyalty? Has the institutional church traded the freedom of life in Christ for institutional control? In this episode I explore how formal membership contracts — often loaded with behavioral clauses, doctrinal checkpoints, and institutional loyalty — distort the gospel of grace and reduce free flowing community to a legal transaction with rewards for compliance and punishments for non-compliance. Jesus brought us into a relationship, not a system. So why have countless churches made belonging conditional on paperwork?

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