Alan Gross
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Baptist meaning 'The Lord' s churches as He Designed His churches which have Scriptural Believer, 's Baptism of John the Baptist, I. e., not because they were named' Baptist', or that all those named 'Baptist' have New Testament beliefs, or Authority.
THE LORD'S CHURCHES PERPETUITY PROVEN by CHURCHES' Officers, as offered by Rosco Brong.
“If a man desire the office of a bishop
he desires a good work."
" They have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree”
[I Timothy 3:1, 13].
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The context of the two verses shows that bishops and deacons New Testament church officers, and to this fact practically all Christians agree, however far they may depart from Scriptural ideas of the duties of these offices.
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Even believers in a false, unScriptural, imaginary “invisible” ‘church’ become at least temporarily realistic and operate in some kind of organized assembly in ‘naming’ bishops and deacons.
…
But if bishops and deacons were officers in the kind of church ORGANIZATION that Jesus Built,
and if this kind of church passed out of existence, as Catholics and Protestants allege and as ignorant Baptists ‘think’, then by whose Authority are such offices named today?
THE LORD'S CHURCHES PERPETUITY PROVEN by CHURCHES' Officers, as offered by Rosco Brong.
“If a man desire the office of a bishop
he desires a good work."
" They have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree”
[I Timothy 3:1, 13].
***
The context of the two verses shows that bishops and deacons New Testament church officers, and to this fact practically all Christians agree, however far they may depart from Scriptural ideas of the duties of these offices.
…
Even believers in a false, unScriptural, imaginary “invisible” ‘church’ become at least temporarily realistic and operate in some kind of organized assembly in ‘naming’ bishops and deacons.
…
But if bishops and deacons were officers in the kind of church ORGANIZATION that Jesus Built,
and if this kind of church passed out of existence, as Catholics and Protestants allege and as ignorant Baptists ‘think’, then by whose Authority are such offices named today?
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