On Monday morning, June 14 at 8:30am, 10 students, including me, started the journey toward learning "how" SDBs handle church issues. Rev. Gordon Lawton, Dean of the Center on Ministry, is our instructor. We have tackled the following issues thus far:
Who are the People of God? (viewed from dispensational, covenantal, and antinomian perspectives)
Local Church Covenants
The Kinship System (including the tension between the Great Commandment and Great Commission)
Internal/External Balance in relation to the purpose of the church
3 Major Types of Church Polity: congregational, episcopal, presbyterian
9 Conference tests for congregational polity
process of church membership
the importance of conducting orderly business
Authority/Leadership in the church
Call to Ministry/Licensure/Ordination/Accreditation
I am looking forward to next week and what discussions wait in store for us based upon God's word. I would love to write or share more of my thoughts or our discussions on any interested topic. Leave a comment here, ask me on facebook, or send me an email.
3 comments:
so... Fish survived the flood?
so... where do we see Polygamy listed as a sin in scripture? see: 2 Sam 12:7-8
Can you maybe lose your salvation? see Revelation 3:5
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