Is It Necessary To Be a Member of a Local Church? (I) by Jack Cottrell (Notes) on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 4:33pm INQUIRY: I have a friend who has gone to college and has stopped meeting together with a church. Her argument has been that “you don’t need the church to have God,” and “you don’t need to ‘go to church’ to have God.” She still studies and reads on her own, but how can I explain to her that she needs to connect with the local body? She recently started going to a denominational Bible study, and so … Continue reading →