Shepherd Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new books:<\/p>\n
<\/a>The Why, The What, and The How of Church Membership<\/em><\/a><\/strong> Should you commit yourself to membership in a local church? Isn\u2019t just being a Christian enough? Anyhow, where does the Bible say that we have to become members of a church\u2026 why can\u2019t I just attend and get involved? These are very important questions that demand an answer, especially in the casual age that we\u2019re living in.<\/p>\n In this short, readable book, Dr. Wayne Mack answers these questions and argues conclusively and clearly for church membership. This is a book all Christians should read, whether members or non-members of a local church\u2014and one that every pastor should hand out to his congregation!<\/p>\n Learn more and order here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>Identifying Heart Transformation<\/em><\/a><\/strong> Some people think that only Christians can experience \u201creal change\u201d or \u201clasting change.\u201d However, such observations don\u2019t hold up in real life. Confusion about change often exists because our understanding of the nature of the heart is underdeveloped. Both unbelievers and believers can change their thoughts, desires, and choices, because doing so doesn\u2019t require a change of heart. Only Christians, however,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Announcing “The Why, The What, and The How of Church Membership” by Wayne Mack and “Identifying Heart Transformation” by Nate Brooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":54161,"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":[801],"tags":[1127],"class_list":["post-54151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shepherd-press-jay-younts","tag-announcements","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-why-the-what-and-the-how-of-church-membership-1000jpg-4.jpg?fit=191%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54151","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54162,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54151\/revisions\/54162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
by Wayne Mack<\/strong><\/p>\n
by Nate Brooks<\/strong><\/p>\n