Who's authorized to baptize whom?

[Godsdrummer]

Originally Posted by shazeep

yes to heirarchy, hence "greater gifts."
ok, the lex seems to bear "governments" out closely enough, so i would attack the premise that because God set these out in the Church does not mean that God set them out in a church...i guess unless your church government is...chosen by lot? Or even by the prescribed method, which the passage is eluding me at the moment. Pretty sure there is one...

Just a thought I just had when reading back down through this thread. When Paul or NT writer speaks of "the body of Christ" why do we assume he is speaking in relationship to a local assembly? The body of Christ is not just the local assembly, but the whole constituency of the church.