| OK, but bishops like your uncle do not rule your church.October 29 2009 at 4:38 PM | Tomas (Login TomasSedlacek) |
Response to Re: Now let's test Lasenna's post: Acts 20:29-30. |
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Acts 20:28 says the bishops rule the church. In churches like the Baptists or the Churches of Christ (that were established first in America), the bishops rule the local congregations. I think that is the right meaning. Though in some churches, like Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican, bishops rule regions that can be called dioceses, and I think that's allowed too, though it is not what Paul meant. But in the INC, bishops are under locale ministers, those are under district ministers, and district ministers are ruled by the central administration headed by the executive minister. If I made a small error in this hierarchy, I think I have it approximately correct. Neither the district ministers nor the executive minister are bishops. You have also overseers, and in Greek the word for overseer and bishop is the same word, episkopos. So you are not supposed to distinguish between bishops and overseers. But your overseers are not ruling the church. Verse 28 says the church is ruled by bishops, not ministers. So to follow the Bible, you need to reform your church government. Your ministers should become bishops, and bishops need all to have exactly one wife, according to 1 Timothy. So any unmarried ministers you have need to resign and find a wife first, before being ordained properly. But anyway, other churches have faulty bishops too. Catholics and Orthodox are ruled by bishops, but those are invalid bishops, they are not married. So they need to resign, find a wife, and then be ordained. | |
| Responses- Tomas, does your bishop have children? If not then he would be disqualified. - Beatrice77 on Oct 29, 6:41 PM
- Yes, our bishops need to have at least 2 children. - Tomas on Oct 29, 11:17 PM
- So did Corinthian women shaved their head when they pray? Like this? - Beatrice77 on Nov 8, 10:52 PM
- Sorry, I can't watch videos. - Tomas on Nov 12, 2:32 PM
- And if the bishop could not have 2 children, then he should not be bishop. - Beatrice77 on Nov 7, 4:07 PM
- That's right, we need to see how he brings up at least 2 - Tomas on Nov 12, 2:51 PM
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