[Linux4christians] I need some advice.

[Billy F. Staggs]

Peter, could you tell me who the author is? Granted I haven't had time 
to look them over thoroughly, but I don't seem to be able to find any 
information regarding there origin.  The home page shows to be edited 
very recently (yesterday) so someone appears to be actively maintaining 
them.

Thanks,

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bstaggs <><

On 5/19/2011 10:19 PM, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> An interesting concept I have been hearing about is the suggestion 
> that "elders", "deacons", and "pastors" (bishops) are all used 
> interchangeably in the NT.  Here's an essay that gathers together all 
> uses of the Greek terms (presbuteros, episkopos, poimainen, diakonos) 
> and shows how they were used in context:
> http://www.biblepages.web.surftown.se/ee01d.htm
>
> I don't really have a horse in this fight; you can believe one or the 
> other about church structure and it doesn't affect your salvation.  
> Personally I don't believe there is scriptural basis for a hierarchy; 
> it just lists various occupations without giving organizational 
> structure to them ("And forsooth, ye deacons needs must answer to 
> thine elders, who art subject to the bishops...") but maybe I'm just 
> not reading the epistles carefully enough to catch it.
>
> Our small (maybe 100 families on the books, 50 attending at any given 
> time) has none of that.  We have one full-time pastor whose job is to 
> lead the worship services; the entire rest of the church body is 
> expected to hold him accountable, conduct small group studies as we 
> are called by God to do so, and maintain the physical needs of the 
> church building.  Unlike churches I've been to that do have formally 
> appointed committees -- deacons, elders, whatever -- there has never 
> been a single argument about money, music, carpet colors, or anything 
> else that I am aware of.  And the church just keeps growing... the 
> first time I went there were maybe 20 people total in the whole building.
>
> Shalom,
>
> */PBS/*
>
>

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