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Re: Biblical church organization
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Originally Posted by Esaias
Could someone expound the proper Biblical organization and government of a new covenant apostolic assembly (church)? Please include the following:
What are the necessary components or elements of a scriptural church?
How does a scriptural church come into existence?
What offices, if any, exist in a scriptural church? Please identify them, their names/titles, their roles/responsibilities, their qualifications, and how they are established/appointed/selected or otherwise come to be in a local assembly.
What are the purposes or missions of the church, in relation to the world, to its members, and to other churches?
Also, please be sure to address the following terms:
- Pastor
- Bishop
- Elder
- Presbytery
- Overseer and oversight
- Shepherd
- Deacon
- Minister
- Steward
- Servant
- Evangelist
- Prophet
- Apostle
- Teacher
- Helps
- Governments
- Rule
Any insight appreciated, but please no just linking to someone else's article or just copy-pasting someone else's commentary or explanations. Also, please support everything with scriptural citations. |
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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