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Why Swedish Churches Need Membership

**Originally written for the 9Marks Journal ”Church Membership: Following the Lord Together.” Sweden is one of the most secular and individualistic cultures in the world. I’ve often been asked, in a setting like Sweden, whether church membership is even wise. Won’t it simply turn people away? Other articles in this Journal provide compelling arguments that church membership is biblical. In this article, I hope instead to show why church membership matters in places mired in secularism and individualism. Hopefully these…