In many churches, the term "member" is used to describe someone who is a committed person identifying themselves with a church. While we don't judge, at Hope we strive to use the term family member. In changing this terminology, we hope to model the Hope we have in each other: not in membership dues, structure...but in a partnership, marriage, and relationship with one another. As family members, we we lift each other up, take our good and bad moments, and work in partnership to be Christ's visible body to a broken world.
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