[Linux4christians] I need some advice.

[dcolburn at bibleseven.com]

Since I have never been a conformist and have railed against
"tradition over truth" for 21 years, as I study the Word of God
line-by-line I test historic and current doctrine against the Word.

I don't believe that there are any blind-traditionalists on this
list!  :-)

> On May 19, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Proyecto Puente Internacional wrote:
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>> ...And yet the New Testament mentions 17 men who are apostles, BESIDES the Twelve, prophets, elders, deacons, evangelists....
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> 	Well, I think the big question is how these overlap, etc. We consider evangelists under the category of teaching elders. I think generally, within ordained ministry, it seems like two offices can be justified. The New Testament churches seems to have elders/bishops and then we see the deacons set apart to do the mercy related work. Within elders, we read that some are worthy of a double honor, e.g., those who teach. Hence why we have teaching elders (i.e. pastors) and ruling elders (those doing the ruling work of elders, but are not pastors in the "vocational" sense).
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>> If we expect to fulfill the Great comission any time soon, it might be a very good idea to re-read the Book from cover to cover, and see if the religious traditions of my denomination are in line.
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> 	That's actually how I ended up where I am at...
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> 	-Tim
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