Bible Verses about โjoining the local churchโ
The Bible contains 9 verses about joining the local church across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โnot forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.โ
โObey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.โ
โso we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.โ
โTake heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.โ
โFor even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,โ
โI also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.โ
โpraising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.โ
โHe is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.โ
โto the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:โ
