How to join the assembly of God

A free church is not the same as the assembly of God, or the Body of Christ. We can easily verify that through two single questions. How can you become a member in a free church, and how can you enter the assembly of God? In a free church they have regulations that say, so and so it must be. Baptist and Pentecostal churches demand that all members must be baptized as the Bible teaches, and these regulations can seem biblical.

(Now they are not so strictly with God’s Word. Denominations and churches do not demand conversion to the Lord and baptism. For the sake of ecumenic, also the Pentecostal Movement has given up the demand of conversion and baptism and can have alliance meetings with other churches and even with Catholics).

In a meeting they come to a decision about membership, and the new member gives a membership card and is registered. This way that take in members in something they mean is the assembly of God, is entirely outside what the Bible teaches.

According to the Bible, it is not at all question about to elect anyone to a member of the assembly of God. We enter the assembly of God through receiving Jesus as our personal Saviour, and be born anew. Then we also receive the membership. We are born into the assembly of God, and we belong to God’s household, God’s family. Eph. 2:19. Then we have also citizenship in heaven. Phil. 3:20.

The new birth is no adoption. If the new birth is an adoption, then God’s children are not his own children, only adopted children. Then God is not our Father, only our adoptive Father. Who is our real Father?

When we through the faith in Jesus are born again, then this is a great wonder. From having been only created beings, we become related to the Creator. Jesus is our Brother and his Father is our Father.

”And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7 (KJV). When we get the Holy Spirit as a gift, then it is a new creation. The Holy Spirit gives us the new life, and we are new creations in Christ.

”Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor. 5:17. Gal. 6:15. The Spirit gives life. John 6:63. 2 Cor. 3:6.

”Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;” Acts 3:19

”…Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:3-5.