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title: 'T.D. Witherspoon on the Kind of Church Member Needed Today'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-05-10
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-t-d-witherspoon-on-the-kind-of-church-member-needed-today
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# T.D. Witherspoon on the Kind of Church Member Needed Today

“The Gospel is God’s great agency for the regeneration, the purification, the enlightenment of the world. Its mission is to give light to them that sit in darkness; to comfort the mourner; to discountenance vice and eradicate sin. To accomplish these results there are needed both men and means. Church membership involves the subjection of one’s resources to the service of Christ. A man’s time, his influence, his money, all are to be consecrated — laid upon the altar to be used as the Lord has need. This is the kind of church membership we need to-day.” — [**T.D. Witherspoon**](/authors/thomas-dwight-witherspoon), *The Christian’s Surrender to Christ* (1885)