Church Membership: An Extension of Ecclesiology

I found this neat thread on the PB about Church Membership and found an article/blog by Dr. R. Scott Clark. This is an awesome article! This is exactly at what I've been aiming at throughout all my blogs. He shows that book keeping is found in both testaments, founded on a covenant community in the Old Covenant and consequentially practiced in the New. Here's is part of the article:

Dr. R. Scott Clark wrote, Kevin DeYoung offers several practical reasons why church membership matters. At least one of the comments called for biblical proof for the idea of church membership. I offer these biblical considerations.  There is a widespread notion that a truly Spirit-led congregation would not keep anything so earthy as membership records. This is an unfounded and unbiblical assumption which does not square with biblical history and teaching. [Continue reading here]