Interesting.
mr. mm and I aren’t members of a church although we affiliate with one which we attend regularly.
IMO, church membership is useful for having a say in church government, but that’s about it.
True.
I am a 'member' of the Wesleyan denomination.
We fall under the Methodist 'tradition'.
As a denomination, we practice 'open' communion; in that you do NOT have to be a member of our local church or even the denomination or even 'belong' to ANY church, to partake. It's between you and GOD. (Although we do want the younger folks to KNOW what they are doing; not just going along because most everyone else is.
Some churchs; not belonging to a denomination to guide them, have various other 'rules' that they follow in their government.
(We could get off on a tangent here and be gone for DAYS! ;^)
I ran across a number of Christian ‘home churches’ when I was in Tennessee and North Carolina several years ago...I wonder if that is the group no one can ‘pigeonhole’...