"ChurchGovernment" Tagged Sermons
Whether Acts describes a pattern still normative for the church today, or a unique founding history, is the question behind the rise of Pentecostalism, the Peniel movement, and similar claims to continuing revelation. Acts itself is read instead as evidence for an ordered church with three offices and multiple, connected local assemblies. The extraordinary in Acts served the ordinary that followed it.
Calvin invented no new religion. He rediscovered a buried biblical Christianity, summed up in the five points that bear his name and in government by elders. The same rediscovery separates church and state. ‘Orthodox’ means straight thinking, and Matthew 16:28 calls for it.