By Ron Halbrook Our country’s 200th birthday is just around the corner. Two hundred years can look like an eternity to young people but only in the last decade have the last veterans of the War Between the States died. And some of those veterans knew old-timers in their day who could remember the signing of …
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By Cecil Willis The only way for us to get a correct concept of what the government of the church is like is by looking into the inspired history and divine instruction book for the church, which is the New Testament. It also should be observed that a church not conforming to the New Testament pattern …
By Guy N. Woods “(Phil. 4:15-16). Here, too, we see the simple manner in which the church in Philippi joined with Paul in the work of preaching the gospel. There was no `missionary society’ in evidence, and none was needed; the brethren simply raised, the money and sent it directly to Paul. This is the way …
By F. B. SRYGLEY-1934- “The agent system of collecting funds from many churches, even if it is done under some eldership, is without authority, ties churches together and has a tendency to destroy the independence of the local church. The greatest objection to the whole scheme is that it is not in the New Testament.” …
