Batman is a model church member.<\/p>\n
I bet you never thought you\u2019d read that sentence in a 9Marks article, huh? But think about it for a moment. Batman\u2019s just an ordinary person, a regular guy roaming the streets of Gotham in a batsuit bringing justice to criminals. He doesn\u2019t have special Kryptonian DNA like Superman. He was never injected with a super soldier serum like Captain America. But when the Dark Knight sees the bat symbol light up the sky, he suits up and gets to work\u00a0guarding<\/em>\u00a0the city of Gotham. He\u2019s an ordinary man with an extraordinary task.<\/p>\n What does any of this have to do with your role as a church member? Well, quite a bit. Church members have been commissioned by God to\u00a0guard the gospel<\/em>. That task may seem like something that should be entrusted to spiritual superheroes. But God in his wisdom has put that responsibility on every Christian as a member of a local church.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see this in the Bible.<\/p>\n GUARDING GOD’S DWELLING<\/strong><\/p>\n The story of redemption actually begins with God commissioning Adam to \u201cguard\u201d the Garden of Eden, the dwelling place of God (Gen 2:15). As creation\u2019s priest-king, Adam had the responsibility to protect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You don’t need a seminary education. You don\u2019t have to be an ordained minister or a spiritual superstar. All you need is the Holy Spirit, and you have that! It\u2019s time to suit up and start guarding the gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[339,331],"class_list":["post-32386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-church-membership","tag-membership-discipline","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32388,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32386\/revisions\/32388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}