Membership includes joyful obedience to Jesus’ commands to selflessly give of your resources (2 Cor. 8:1–9:15) and of your abilities in order to edify, or build up, his church (1 Cor. 14:12; 1 Pt. 4:10).
Membership means desiring to belong to something bigger than yourself so that you can contribute to the health and growth of other people who are promising to do the same for you.
All of this enables us to have a healthy church where members work together in different ways as we all take ownership of the mission that God has given us.