How do you assess your members resistance to your shepherding? What criteria should a pastor do his own assessment in his shepherding of the sheep? At what point can you determine if your members are wounded sheep or goats? What if an individual, family, or couple no longer receive your ministry the way they once did?

Jim and Brian discuss these and much more on this episode of Trenchtalk

How do you determine who is a committed member? Does the Bible actually talk about church membership? What role does a church covenant play in this conversation? What do you do with regular attenders who won’t join?

Brian and Jim discuss this and much more on this episode of Trench Talk

Are there members who simply won’t return post-COVID to in-person worship? How can pastors lovingly and biblically pursue them? What if they won’t return, if and when should a church pursue discipline? Is there a category where you remove a member without disciplining them?

Brian and Jim discuss these questions and more on this episode of Trenchtalk.

What obligations do pastors have to those who attend their church but have not become members? Is he obligated to them? Is church membership biblical? What is the difference between affection and obligation? Will a pastor give an account for non-members?

Brian Croft and Jim Savastio answer these, and many more on this episode of Trench Talk.