Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers: Who Needs Them?

By Edward O. Bragwell, Sr. Our Lord equipped the church with apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers (Eph. 4:11-12), but why use them, when we can have educators, scientists and engineers? Just another meaningless question about a hypothetical situation? Hardly. Evidence is mounting that brethren, allegedly conservative, are more and more turning to people of perceived …

David Lipscomb University Missionary Society

By Lewis Willis There are many people in churches of Christ today who are not familiar with the terminology, “Missionary Society.” Many of these people are not even aware that at one time churches of Christ and what we know as the Christian Church were united in one body. However, almost 150 years ago a division …