March 26, 2021
The signs of a healthy & biblical Church & how I used my COVID stimulus funds to resist socialism – Podcast #41
The signs of a healthy & biblical Church & how I used my COVID stimulus funds to resist socialism – Podcast #41
When a Christian applies for membership at a local church. It becomes a solemn duty of that church to investigate the candidate before extending their right hand of fellowship to him or her. It is equally the responsibility of that Christian to investigate all matters of that church, before asserting himself as a candidate. The responsibility is two-fold.
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The London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 (taken from http://www.1689.com/confession.html)
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Ponder this foreign thought.
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A sign of a healthy autonomous church is there will be no need to rely on Christians (or their resources) from outside churches or ministries. But instead, they will use their gifted members from within.
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#Ecclesiology
When a Christian applies for membership at a local church. It becomes a solemn duty of that church to investigate the candidate before extending their right hand of fellowship to him or her. It is equally the responsibility of that Christian to investigate all matters of that church, before asserting himself as a candidate. The responsibility is two-fold.
As we diligently and discerningly examine churches to consider our home (a dozen). One anomaly consistently exists in all of them. None of them have a plurality of Elders, and almost all of them use their deacons to wrongfully exhibit the office and authority of elders/overseer, when their role should be servant, not a shepherd. Though I will not allow this anomaly to prevent us from becoming part of a local church. But it might keep us from membership. Much to pray about.
As Sam Waldron writes on paragraph 7 of chapter 26 of our Confession, “Third, the norm is a plurality of elders in each local church. This is the clear implication of both the Bible and the Confession. No instance of a New Testament church with only one elder exists. Universally, a plurality of elders is mentioned (Acts 14:23; 20:17; Phil 1:1. 1 Thess. 5:12; Titus 1:5; Heb. 13:17; James 5:14).”