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Questions and Answers: What is the role of the deacons in this situation?
How can we know anything about anything
To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald
Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?
NO!
That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.
Take science as an example.
How can we know anything about the created material world around us?
How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?
We all see the same things in the material world,
but we don't come to the same answers.
Why is that?
How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches?
Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.
Why is that?
Same scientific facts. Different answers.
Same Bible. Different answers.
Why is that?
The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get
from what we can see through science
or what we can read in the Bible?
How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?
How do we analyze what we have seen and read?
How do we interpret what we have seen and read?
We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock.
That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation.
There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.
An example might help.
Question: Why do you believe in evolution?
Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.
Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?
Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.
Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.
If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.
When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered.
So where to the foundations come from?
There are three possibilities.
- things that we make up, pulled from the air
- demonic lies
- divine revelation
Question: Why do you believe in creation?
Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith
so that I could believe Him.
See how quickly we got to the foundation.
This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.
In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air,
are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan.
So these are one and the same.
Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ.
So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices?
Because God has revealed this truth to us.
The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God
and the lies of Satan?
The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.
Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"
The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem.
It is a moral problem.
Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you:
For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened."
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Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?
Matthew 7:7-11 *
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe
those things that they don't want to submit to.
They have to want to obey God.
How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver
Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)
"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"
Lies appear to have no price upon them.
They seem cheap and they abound everywhere.
But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.
"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness.
And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him.
God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).
"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words;
that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)
That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus.
When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject.
Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.
"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)
Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university.
On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before
who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them,
but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.
In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning,
the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.
They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air.
When asked why he believed his basic assumption,
the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out,
"I guess I'm making the whole thing up."
It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions.
However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.
Question:
My question is this. Our church is beginning to tolerate just about anything. Our Pastor is wanting our board (deacons) to only have the duty of financial matters. He wants all other responsibilities himself. He wants to leave scriptures out of our by-laws that relate to dealing with sin in the congregation. He has a young man at this moment sitting out of our praise and worship team because of pornography, violence toward his wife, will not follow instructions of the board, yet our Pastor wants to allow this young man back in the pulpit. He claims we are not restoring this person if we do not. He only wants to make decisions concerning these matters himself, and the board not even be told about them. What is the role of the deacons in this situation?
Answer:
It sounds like they will tolerate anything except for the will of God.
It is difficult to know what the role of a deacon should be in a church government unless that church government follows the pattern of Scripture. The Church slipped away from the pattern of Scripture a long, long time ago.
The pattern of Scripture is really very simple. There are three levels of Government in the Church. The local Church is part of the universal Church, and the family is part of the local Church. On each level, there are elders and deacons. Both elders and deacons are spiritual offices on all levels, whether husband and wife, local elders and deacons, or apostles.
The order of local elders and deacons do not seem to work unless they are under the government of apostles--traveling elders and deacons.
The Church left the pattern of Scripture within a couple of hundred years after Christ and started with a chief elder--at that time, they named this person the bishop, while prior to that time, elder and bishop were different words for the same persons. There never was a singular elder. It is always plural in the Bible. There is only one mention of a preeminent elder in the Bible and that is the one who was out of order and the apostle, John, was going to deal with that elder. There was no paid elder. The verse that is used to justify paying pastors is a verse that is about apostles, traveling elders and deacons, not about local elders. The elders and deacons were not hired but set in by the indication of the Holy Spirit and the laying on of hands of the apostles. There were no boards and presidents or directors of Christian education. There was no locally abiding pastor as we see now. The elders (plural) were to pastor the flock of God (care for the members as a shepherd cares for sheep).
The Church services looked like 1 Corinthians 14 with every member a ministry and every joint supplying as Ephesians 4 states. This type of service is almost impossible to have in a huge Church. The Churches of the Bible were more like home Churches, though they didn't always meet in homes.
The entire New Testament is full of these and other parts of the pattern of God for Christ's bride, the Body of Christ. If it were a club, you could put it together any old way, but it is a living Body. See, sayeth He, that you build all things according to the pattern. Note that it is the flock of God, not the pastor's flock or the elder's flock. It is God's Church.
As far as apostles go, the apostles had no authority to establish doctrine on their own. Acts 15 is probably the best example of this.
What is the role of the deacons in your particular situation? There is a pragmatic approach that says, "We just have to make the best of working around God's pattern, since that pattern was for biblical times and now we can't do these things." Some people have tried to force-fit God's ways into man's ways, sort of like putting new wine into old wine skins or sewing new cloth to old. Every time I have seen or heard about something like this, it has been a disaster. One group saw, in the Bible, that there has to be apostles... so they decided that they would be apostles. That can't work. A denomination saw the same thing, so they appointed a board of apostles... they disbanded the board of apostles a few years later. Some churches have seen the order of elders and tried to establish the order of elders without apostles only to find that it doesn't work without apostles. There is currently an influential group of self-declared apostles what are working together in a sort of loosely-knit consortium arrangement, but that is not the order of God and will likely result in great disorder and damage to the Church. Then, you have the home-church movement, which may be closer to the order of God, but it still is not the Church that God designed.
Unfortunately, the Church has largely fallen away from God. One pastor was afraid to speak about unmarried people living together because he would lose member. Another was afraid to tell the truth about abortion. One youth leader in his early 20s was finding the younger teenage girls interesting and was pursuing a 15-year-old and forced himself on her when he got the chance. His liberal pastor was aware of this and let him continue. Then he got in trouble with another under age girl who reported him. If a man speaks up against the evil, that man is likely to be hired. Some don't want to speak up against evil because they have rejected one part of the Bible after another until they will tolerate anything except for the will of God. One church fell so far that they ordained a woman who was committing and abomination of perversion.
Yet God has moved to restore His pattern, and His pattern does work. It's just that there is no money, power, or prestige in the order of God. Without the pattern of God, there is not hope. Even with the pattern of God, the way is narrow and a fight to the death with the fleshly nature of humanity. If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?
King Josiah tore his clothes when he read the book of the law and saw how far Isreal had slipped from the fulfillment of the Book. Prior to this, God revealed the Scripture to some who were working in the temple. When the king heard it, he said, "Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us." God answered and told Josiah that He was going to judge Judah, but that Josiah would not see the destruction because of his response to God in tearing his clothes and seeking God. And Josiah went out and restored order, getting rid of harlotry, idolatry, and witchcraft. It would be wonderful if every Christian had the same zeal as Josiah to restore the ways of the God from the Bible, but they say they believe every line, yet they reject any line that they don't like.
God showed Ezekiel a vision of a temple. This temple has never been built because this is the temple that God is building, which is the Church. In Ezekiel 43, God said, "the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds (doors), and their post by my posts (pillars), and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
The entire worldly-church system is corrupted into a system designed by and for man. Yet, there is a remnant company who are following God. They are hearing His voice. In the late 1940s, God set in apostles who are in submission to each other and He is revealing the meaning of Scripture to them. God is moving us on. He is leading the way. It's a way we have never gone before. There are mountains to climb. There are valleys to cross, but before us, we see an open door.
I believe that you need to seek the Lord your God with all your heart. The Church is in a terrible mess, not just your local assembly. Seek the Lord with all your might and find out what He wants you to do, then do it.
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The Church, What Is It and What Is Its Purpose
God's method by which He intends to bring us all to fullness is through a body ministry operating in the Church He designed. (Go)
Haggai 2:7-9 The Coming Glory Of The Church (Go)
God Has Restored Much That Is Necessary So That The Church Can Come Into The Fullness. (Go)
What is the 5-fold ministry and why is it important? (Go)
The Reality of the Body of Christ (Go)
Discerning Christ In Your Brother or Sister, the Gifts, Ministries, Offices, and Ordinances of the Body of Christ (Go)
Are All Who Call Themselves Christians Free from Religious Systems of this Age? (Go)
What are the Scriptural Christianity Teachings? (Go)
What are the gifts of the Spirit and how are they received? (Go)
Misconceptions About the Church (Go)
Fulfillment: Understanding What It Is To Be a Christian and Understanding Christianity (Go)
What is God's way to come to full maturity in Christ, and how can I know it is the right way? By the Church. By that which every joint supplies. (Go)
Are the local churches to teach no other doctrine than the Apostle's Doctrine? (Go)
Aren’t there false apostles and false prophets? (Go)
Why is the 5-fold ministry of the Scripture so unpopular? (Go)
Ephesians 4:15-16, Body Ministry By That Which Every Joint Supplies (Go)
Aren't apostles something from the past? (Go)
Is there really any pattern in Scripture for the Church? Yes. Most people don't like it. (Go)
What does the Bible say about the government of the church? (Go)
What About Pastors, Elders and Deacons? (Go)
Isn't God's way like a smorgasbord where you can pick and choose what you want or don't want? No. (Go)
Was There Such a Thing as The Apostolic Age? (Go)
What Are the Two Main Purposes of the Church? (Go)
What are the strengths and weaknesses that can be seen in the Church? (Go)
If the Bible's so great, why don't the churches of today look like the church of the New Testament? (Go)
What is the Real Church, and what is its purpose? (Go)
What is Great Babylon and How is it Falling Today? (Go)
Can human effort help the church to fulfil its mission in the earth? (Go)
Is God's Way something where I can design it myself? (Go)
There will be a coming together of the Body of Christ in unity? (Go)
What is God's plan for building the church? (Go)
How can the church come to the full glory God has planned for her? (Go)
Define Church: The Greek Word For Church, Ekklesia, Literally Means Called Out of Summoned (Go)
What do the Scriptures teach how God designed the Church? (Go)
What is the foundation of the church? (Go)
What is God's way of bringing the Church to unity and to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ? (Go)
Can Spiritual Gifts, Offices, And Ministries Be Counterfeited? (Go)
What Happened To the Church that It No Longer Follows the Biblical Pattern? (Go)
What Is the Problem with Forbidding the People of God to Partake of the Power of the Spirit of God? (Go)
Why have so many Christians rejected the traditional church organizations? (Go)
Humanistic Speculations Have A Way Of Creeping Into The Church. They Are Poison From The Evil One. (Go)
Meaning of Life (Go)
We Need The Church (Go)
Who sets ministries in the Church and how does God say that is to be decided? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the Church; How should it be governed? (Go)
2 Corinthians 11:13-14, False Apostles (Go)
Don't Be Fooled By The Many False Promises Of The Worldly Systems And All Their Empty Promises (Go)
Following Hireling Preachers: The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. (Go)
Following people who were not sent by God (Go)
Galatians 2:2 Paul Went To The Other Apostles By Revelation To Make Sure He Was Not Off Track. He Was Not Independent. (Go)
Was Peter the foundation of the church and the first pope? (Go)
Seek to Know God. (Go)
God's Order Works. (Go)
James 5:14-15, The Elders Anoint With Oil For Healing (Go)
Feedback Question: James 5:13 (Go)
Scriptures that use the Word, Church (Go)
Taking Ground, Holding Ground, Total Victory (Go)
The Problem Of Churches That Are Not Fulfilling Their Purpose. (Go)
Your Purpose in Life (Go)
John 3:16 What does it really mean? (Go)
Why must I believe in Jesus to be saved? (Go)
To Successfully Fulfill Your Purpose in Life, You Must be Born Again (Go)
How Can I Introduce Foundational Truth About the Five Fold Gifting to My Church? (Go)
Why is the pattern of Scripture so important? (Go)
Apostles and the 5-fold Ministries In the Bible (Go)
Questions and Answers
Do Jews go to hell? (Go)
Accusation: Circular Reasoning (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why is it so hard for PhDs to believe? (Go)
Answers For Evolutionists And Atheists (Go)
Questions and Answers: Atheism's Problem With Logic--Why Atheists Can't Logically Hold Their Opinion (Go)
Questions and Answers: Does The Bible Teach A Flat Earth? NO. (Go)
Questions and Answers: Can I do anything and be saved? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Feedback Questions Regarding Mutations (Go)
Questions and Answers: Feedback Question About Supposed Contradictions in the Bible (Go)
Questions and Answers: How Do You Debate a Team of Atheists Who Harass You at Work? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is meant by against such there is no law in Gal 5:23? (Go)
Questions and Answers: How Can I Be Saved And Go To Heaven? (Go)
Questions and Answers: How Old is the Earth? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Is The Bible Literally True? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Unanswered Evolution Questions (Go)
Questions and Answers: Is There A Gallup Poll That Shows 35% Believe Darwinism? (Go)
Questions and Answers: 24,000 original manuscripts and changes in some newer translations (Go)
Questions and Answers: Am I Saved? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Atheist Asserts that Revelation Is Unreliable (Go)
Questions and Answers: Atheist Posits that Atheism Is the Default Opinion (Go)
Questions and Answers: A Loaded Question Is Asked and Answered (Go)
Questions and Answers: Can Our Prayers be Empowered by the Blood of Jesus (Go)
Questions and Answers: Christian Reader Questions the Meaning of the Word, Cult (Go)
Questions and Answers: God knew everything before he created the heavens and the earth, so why did God make people who he knew in advance would turn on him and go to hell? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Clever use of language to cloak an evil intent (Go)
Questions and Answers: In practical terms what does true repentance involve in daily life? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Prerequisites for Repentance (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the basis for your statement that no new genetic information is produced or created? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What Is The Difference Between Being In Love and Loving (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the difference between tongue and tongues? Are they the same or different? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What makes you think that only your view of Jesus is accurate? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What Will the Holy Spirit Do or Not Do? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What would you say to someone who doesn't want to repent because he thinks life will become dull and boring? (Go)
Questions and Answers: When you go God's way instead of your own, what will rule in your heart? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Where did Noah live before the flood? (Go)
Questions and Answers: How can we know which assumptions are valid? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What About Socialism And Reckless Governmental Spending? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What About The Bible--doesn't It Say The Earth Is About 6,000 Years Old? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Are There Three Incompatible Principles In The Bible That Show Inconsistency? NO. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What Is Wrong With Theistic Evolution? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Evolutionists Can't Find Answers to these Questions. At Least None that Make Sense. (Go)
Questions and Answers: Are Super-Germs an Example of Evolution in Action? (Go)
Answers For Scoffers Who Claim That The Bible Can't Be Trusted. (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why do some people deny that God exists? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Does Evil Exist? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Evolutionists Claim That Similar Features In Fossilized Skeletons Prove Evolution. Is There Any Truth To This Claim? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What are some of the ways that evolutionists use words to confuse? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What are false credentials and how do evolutionists use them? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why Is There All of this Religious Zeal for Selling Evolution? (Go)
Questions and Answers: How have the schools teamed up with Hollywood to spread a myth about the Scopes Monkey Trial? (Go)
Questions and Answers: How can you recognize junk science and speculation cloaked as science? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Feedback Question: Is it too late for me? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Feedback: Evolution has nothing to do with creation (Go)
Questions and Answers: Feedback: We have staked the whole future (Go)
Questions and Answers: Does geology really show convincing evidence for a world-wide flood? (Go)
Questions and Answers: We are not saved by good works, but are we saved to good works and holiness? What does the Bible say? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Can there be love without God? No. There can be no love without God. God is love. Every good and every complete gift comes from Him. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the name of the way that God made to provide love, joy, peace, and freedom? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Here Is A Quick Explanation Of Why Evolution Is Religious Dogma Of Many Cults And It Is Not Science (Go)
Questions and Answers: What will set you free? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Feedback Question: James 5:13 (Go)
Questions and Answers: Doesn't the Bible say that some of those alive at Jesus' time would not see death until they saw His Kingdom and His coming in glory? (Go)
Questions and Answers: How do I enter the Kingdom of God and leave the bondage of the enemy? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Will I Miss Life and the Kingdom of God and Fulfillment Without Jesus? Yes. Without Jesus There is no Life. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the foundation, the basis, of evolution? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why isn't Naturalism a valid assumption? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why aren't liberal thinkers open-minded? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the 5-fold ministry and why is it important? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What are the Scriptural Christianity Teachings? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why do so many people try to conform to such nonsense as evolution? They want to fit in, so they pretend. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What does the Bible say about the government of the church? (Go)
Questions and Answers: There Are Many Key Questions That Evolutionists Must Answer If It Is To Be Considered As A Hypothesis, Let Alone A Theory (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the work of the Holy Spirit? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the manifestation of the sons of God? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Does the government have a responsibility to protect the citizens? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Time Management: Is There A Way That I Can Get Everything Done? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Standing in Judgment: What About All the Things that Are Wrong with the Church? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What Is The Basis Or Mechanism That Would Allow Evolutionism's Claims To Work? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What do the Scriptures teach how God designed the Church? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What did Satan mean when he said to Eve, you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil? What god's was Satan referring to? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What Is Really Wrong With Our Public Schools And Why Have They Failed So Miserably? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What Is the Difference Between Relativism And the Belief in Absolutes? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is true liberty all about? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why Can't God Accept Me Just As I Am, Sin And All? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Has Anyone Ever Found A Real Error In The Bible? No. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the Church; How should it be governed? (Go)
Questions and Answers: I am an Atheist and have not history of violence. Have you ever even read your Bible and it's history of violence? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Some skeptics claim that there are errors in the Bible. Is there any truth to this claim? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Does The Bible Say That It Is The Infallible Word Of God? Yes. (Go)
Questions and Answers: Are There Contradictions In The Bible? No! (Go)
Questions and Answers: Should we have a passion and zeal to read the Bible today? Yes. (Go)
Questions and Answers: Is Distant Starlight A Problem For Creationists Or Evolutionists? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Does Real Science Support Evolution And An Old Earth? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Does the Founder Principle Support Evolution? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Can You Believe The Bible Literally? (Go)
Isn't God's way like a smorgasbord where you can pick and choose what you want or don't want? No. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the change in the fulfillment of the royal law under the New Covenant (Go)
Questions and Answers: How you can know if you are saved and have received the Holy Spirit (Go)
Anti-Bible Anti-God Comment Claims that God supported Bashing Babies Against Rocks (Go)
Anti-Bible Anti-God Comment Claims that God supported child abuse in Judges 11:29-40 (Go)
Anti-Bible Comment Claims that Exodus 21:1-11 says that the God of the Bible allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Go)
Anti-Bible Commenter Tries To Reverse the Burden of Proof (Go)
Questions & Answers: Will God remember all your sins and remind you of them on the judgment day? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Can a Christian Lose Salvation? (Go)
If you do not believe in Jesus Christ and his teachings you can never be a Muslim (Go)
Comment: You use your website (very carefully) to advocate religious propaganda. There is so much inaccurate information on there. (Go)
Comment: Terrorists who commit suicide bombings and other atrocities are only Muslim by name (Go)
Comment: Reader Claims There Is No Difference Between Islam and Christianity (Go)
Comment: Sweeping Generalizations? (Go)
Questions and Answers: Why is Islam a False Religion? (Go)
Comment: Reader Claims that the Bible isn't the Exact Word of God but Claims that the Quran is. (Go)
Questions and Answers: Please help me to connect the old testament ministers to the new testament fivefold offices clearly stating the similarities of these offices. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What About the Kangaroo in Australia Only? Does That Prove Evolution? (Go)
I Feel So Empty and Alone Inside (Go)
God's Way
The Real Church is Not Only God's METHOD to Bring Us to Fulfillment, but it IS the Fulfillment (Go)
The Calling Of God (Go)
What are the Scriptural Christianity Teachings? (Go)
No Response: The Seed that Falls by the Way Side, the Trampled Path (Go)
Isn't God's way like a smorgasbord where you can pick and choose what you want or don't want? No. (Go)
What are the strengths and weaknesses that can be seen in the Church? (Go)
How do churches become confused? (Go)
Wisdom: Righteousness (Go)
Wisdom: Holiness (Go)
The Reality of Christ, the Head of the Body (Go)
To Successfully Fulfill Your Purpose in Life, You Must be Born Again (Go)
Gal 5:23 Questions and Answers: What do you mean by against such there is no law? (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the Church; How should it be governed? (Go)
1Timothy 5:17-19, The Order Of Local Elders (Go)
1 Corinthians 1:1-4:2 The Pattern Of Apostles (Go)
1 Corinthians 12:28-30, God Hath Set Some In The Church, First Apostles, Secondarily Prophets, (Go)
2 Corinthians 11:13-14, False Apostles (Go)
Acts 15:2-16:4, God's Order For Establishing Doctrine In The Universal Church (Go)
Acts 8:14-20, Apostles Being Led By The Holy Spirit (Go)
Aren't There False Apostles Out There? (Go)
Is Being Filled With The Spirit And Speaking In Tongues Biblical? (Go)
Being Set Into Your Ministry By The Laying On Of Hands And Prophecy Of The Presbytery Will Build You Up (Go)
Discerning Christ In Your Brother or Sister, the Gifts, Ministries, Offices, and Ordinances of the Body of Christ (Go)
Don't Be Fooled By The Many False Promises Of The Worldly Systems And All Their Empty Promises (Go)
Don't Some Theologians And Scholars Say That There Were Only 12 Apostles And That Is All There Will Ever Be? (Go)
False Kingdoms (Go)
Following Hireling Preachers: The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. (Go)
Following people who were not sent by God (Go)
Galatians 2:2 Paul Went To The Other Apostles By Revelation To Make Sure He Was Not Off Track. He Was Not Independent. (Go)
God's method by which He intends to bring us all to fullness is through a body ministry operating in the Church He designed. (Go)
Was Peter the foundation of the church and the first pope? (Go)
Seek to Know God. (Go)
God's Order Works. (Go)
Is there really any pattern in Scripture for the Church? Yes. Most people don't like it. (Go)
Holiness Brings Clearer Vision and Hearing (Go)
How Can I Know God's Will And Be Led By The Spirit Of God? (Go)
Was There Such a Thing as The Apostolic Age? (Go)
James 5:14-15, The Elders Anoint With Oil For Healing (Go)
Feedback Question: James 5:13 (Go)
Jeremiah 23:16-22 False Prophets (Go)
Are the local churches to teach no other doctrine than the Apostle's Doctrine? (Go)
Misconceptions About the Church (Go)
Aren't apostles something from the past? (Go)
Taking Ground, Holding Ground, Total Victory (Go)
The Problem Of Churches That Are Not Fulfilling Their Purpose. (Go)
Why is the 5-fold ministry of the Scripture so unpopular? (Go)
The Move of the Spirit of 1948 From the Papers and Memories of Milford E. Kirkpatrick (Go)
If the Bible's so great, why don't the churches of today look like the church of the New Testament? (Go)
What About Pastors, Elders and Deacons? (Go)
Can The Ministries And Offices Of The Church Be Counterfeited? (Go)
Your Purpose in Life (Go)
Why is the pattern of Scripture so important? (Go)
Is God's Way something where I can design it myself? (Go)
Isn't it just being picky to want to do things the Scriptural way? (Go)
Apostles
How Long Will There Be Apostles? (Go)
1 Corinthians 1:1-4:2 The Pattern Of Apostles (Go)
1 Corinthians 12:28-30, God Hath Set Some In The Church, First Apostles, Secondarily Prophets, (Go)
2 Corinthians 11:13-14, False Apostles (Go)
Acts 15:2-16:4, God's Order For Establishing Doctrine In The Universal Church (Go)
Acts 8:14-20, Apostles Being Led By The Holy Spirit (Go)
Aren't There False Apostles Out There? (Go)
Don't Be Fooled By The Many False Promises Of The Worldly Systems And All Their Empty Promises (Go)
Don't Some Theologians And Scholars Say That There Were Only 12 Apostles And That Is All There Will Ever Be? (Go)
False Kingdoms (Go)
Following people who were not sent by God (Go)
Galatians 2:2 Paul Went To The Other Apostles By Revelation To Make Sure He Was Not Off Track. He Was Not Independent. (Go)
God's method by which He intends to bring us all to fullness is through a body ministry operating in the Church He designed. (Go)
Was Peter the foundation of the church and the first pope? (Go)
Seek to Know God. (Go)
God's Order Works. (Go)
Isn't God's way like a smorgasbord where you can pick and choose what you want or don't want? No. (Go)
God Forbids Speculation. (Go)
Is there really any pattern in Scripture for the Church? Yes. Most people don't like it. (Go)
Holiness Brings Clearer Vision and Hearing (Go)
How Can I Know God's Will And Be Led By The Spirit Of God? (Go)
Was There Such a Thing as The Apostolic Age? (Go)
Jeremiah 23:16-22 False Prophets (Go)
Joel 2:25-32 The Restoration In The Remnant (Go)
Are the local churches to teach no other doctrine than the Apostle's Doctrine? (Go)
Matthew 11:25 God Has Hid These Things From The Wise And Prudent, And Hast Revealed Them Unto Babes. (Go)
Press Toward The Mark Of Your High Calling In Christ Jesus (Go)
The Bible -- Satan Knows that He Can Keep You in Frustration if You are Not Faithfully being Fed by the Bible. (Go)
Questions and Answers: What is the Church; How should it be governed? (Go)
Receiving Revelation (Go)
Romans 8:28-29 God's purpose for our lives is that we become like Jesus. (Go)
What is the 5-fold ministry and why is it important? (Go)
Aren't apostles something from the past? (Go)
Seek The Lord For Revelation As You Read The Scripture (Go)
Taking Ground, Holding Ground, Total Victory (Go)
The Problem Of Churches That Are Not Fulfilling Their Purpose. (Go)
What does the Bible say about the government of the church? (Go)
Why is the 5-fold ministry of the Scripture so unpopular? (Go)
Aren’t there false apostles and false prophets? (Go)
The Move of the Spirit of 1948 From the Papers and Memories of Milford E. Kirkpatrick (Go)
If the Bible's so great, why don't the churches of today look like the church of the New Testament? (Go)
How can the church come to the full glory God has planned for her? (Go)
There will be a coming together of the Body of Christ in unity? (Go)
Universal Elders Traveling Ministries (Go)
Walking In Submission Will Cause You To Grow In Christ. (Go)
Can The Ministries And Offices Of The Church Be Counterfeited? (Go)
What do the Scriptures teach how God designed the Church? (Go)
What is the Real Church, and what is its purpose? (Go)
What is the Scriptural Order of Apostles (Go)
Your Purpose in Life (Go)
Did God restore the 5-fold ministry? (Go)
John 3:16 What does it really mean? (Go)
Apostles and the 5-fold Ministries In the Bible (Go)
Questions and Answers: Please help me to connect the old testament ministers to the new testament fivefold offices clearly stating the similarities of these offices. (Go)
Bible Dictionary: Define Apostle, Definition of Apostle (Go)
The Duration of the Apostles--How Long Will Apostles Be In the Church? (Go)
What Does the Bible Say About False Apostles, False Prophets, False Teachers, and False Pastors? (Go)
Apostles are NOT Infallible. There are NO Infallible Human Beings. (Go)
Apostles Equip the Church with the Foundation (Go)
Apostles Equip the Church with Doctrine and Revelation (Go)
Apostles Equip the Church with Government (Go)
Apostles Equip the Members of the Churches with Spiritual Gifts (Go)
Twenty Apostles are Named in the New Testament of the Bible (Go)
Apostles Had the Ministries of Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, and Teacher (Go)
Who Sets an Apostle? How Do Apostles Become Apostles? (Go)
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The Church, the Body of Christ, and discernment of this Body, is the method that God is using to finish the work in His Body.
The Body of Christ, God's Temple, is built up by that which every joint supplies, building each other up in love,
and the Temple must be built according to the pattern of Scripture.
We believe the Holy Scriptures teach:
- The 5 apostolic ministries (Ephesians 4:11)
- The nine gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:8-10)
- Local congregations overseen by elders and deacons (Titus 1:5)
- Every member having and being a ministry in the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:11)
- Being led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
- The gathering together of the Body of Christ (Genesis 49:10, John 17:21)
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The Church, the Body of Christ, and discernment of this Body, is the method that God is using to finish the work in His Body.
The Body of Christ, God's Temple, is built up by that which every joint supplies, building each other up in love,
and the Temple must be built according to the pattern of Scripture.
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