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Category: Genuine Local Churches


Genuine Local Churches, Part 1 – Neither Autonomous nor Independent
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Some have taught that any fellowship or intervention by the apostles or any fellowship of concern from other local churches is improper interference in a church’s local administration; this has no basis in … Continue reading Genuine Local Churches, Part 1 – Neither Autonomous nor Independent

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  • elders
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Genuine Local Churches, Part 2 – Following the Teaching and Leading of the Apostles
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The teaching of the autonomy of the local churches claims that apostles who touch the affairs of a local church improperly interfere in that church’s local administration. This error, which was covered in … Continue reading Genuine Local Churches, Part 2 – Following the Teaching and Leading of the Apostles

    Genuine Local Churches
  • God’s Government, Authority, and Leadership
  • Series
  • Teaching and Fellowship
    apostles
  • authority
  • autonomy
  • elders
  • leadership