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                                                                                            On Church Membership

The paramount concern of an institutional church in the matter of membership must always be that anyone who becomes its member does so for the right reason and that the same is true of anyone who, having been invited into its membership, declines the invitation. The corollary, of course, is that it is always far, far better for someone not to join the church for the right reason than for anyone to join it for the wrong ones.

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