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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Originally Posted by Esaias
Funny, the Presbyterian model of church government has been around for centuries. They don't seem to have had too many two-headed donkey issues.
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Under their model churches are not autonomous and must answer to one of the layers of elders above the local elders. It really ends up just being more bureaucracy. You may not have one man controlling things but you still have powerful groups, sometimes with agendas, wielding power.
The Presbtyerian model is not one of plural leaders as some on AFF advocate. Where they essentially want multiple pastors all equal in power and decision making. That is the model I say is like a two headed donkey.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
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