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Baptist Church Hierarchy
Hierarchy of the Baptist church?
Bishop, local or nationwide or how does it go?
The Baptist church doesn’t have a clerical hierarchy. Local churches have ministers; there’s nothing like bishops or archbisops or cardinals. Most belong to either the Northern or Southern Baptist Association (the two split apart prior to the Civil War). Those generally set policy and a general sort of theological guideline; they also administer things like retirement funds, group insurance, and so on, for ministers and their families.
The Reluctant Saint The Life of St. Joseph of Cupertino Part 5
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Members of One Another: How to build a biblical ethos into your church $8.95 I’ve been losing sleep because of this book!- Dr. John Perkins Dare to face an uncompromising look at the real need in modern western Christianity. Does a church’s strength come from a stage, or from its members? In this training manual for church leaders, McCallum discusses something far more important for local churches than methods, structures, or gimmicks: ethos. If you build a biblical ethos… |