Which aspects of church government are absolutely necessary according to the NT? This sermon shows these to be: plurality of elders in the local congregation; equality of elders; elders elected by the congregation; elders leading the congregation in accordance with Christ's word. This means, to demand that a true church requires anything more than these is to go beyond what we see in the NT by either command or example. The sermon tells which Reformed Presbyterian scholar said: “Scripture does not contain an explicit command to the effect that the local churches of a district must form an organic union. Neither does it furnish us with an example of such a union. In fact, it represents the local churches as individual entities without any external bond of union.” It also reveals which other giant Reformed Presbyterian professor said, when talking about church government, that the NT doesn't take us beyond the individual congregation by either "express precept or example."
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Derek Carlsen is a native Zimbabwean and was a resident in that country until he was called to be the pastor of the Church of Christian Liberty from April 2003 to September 2005. Following this, he became founding pastor of Covenant Reformed Church of Elk Grove in Elk Grove...