Do not join the Church unless you are saved—If you are saved, you will want to join the church, and you can not live as useful a life out of the church as in it, and the church needs your help.
THEN they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:41.
AND they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Acts 2:42.
AND they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.
Acts 2:46.
PRAISING God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added unto the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 2:47.
ONE shall say, I am the Lord’s; . . . and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord.
Isaiah 44:5.
NOT forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews 10:25.
The Church is the best institution on earth, because established by Christ— When you fight the church, you are striking at Jesus Christ, as the church is His bride.
THEY shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:5.