Sectional Presbyter can't get a transfer

[Esaias]

Church leadership should arise from within the local assembly whenever possible. Outside leaders should be temporary, to get the local assembly to a point of maturity where God can raise leadership up from among the members.

The hogwash is the unbiblical ecclesiastical system your friend is married to. That hogwash begins with a failure to recognize what regeneration consists in, Biblically, and culminates in denominationalism. He ought to be born again and placed into the local church of Jesus Christ.

Or, he can stay in a denomination and complain about the system he chooses to be part of.

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Church leadership should arise from within the local assembly whenever possible. Outside leaders should be temporary, to get the local assembly to a point of maturity where God can raise leadership up from among the members.

The hogwash is the unbiblical ecclesiastical system your friend is married to. That hogwash begins with a failure to recognize what regeneration consists in, Biblically, and culminates in denominationalism. He ought to be born again and placed into the local church of Jesus Christ.

Or, he can stay in a denomination and complain about the system he chooses to be part of.

I don't disagree with you. But the same disrespect for elders could also arise within the house church movement.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Originalist

I don't disagree with you. But the same disrespect for elders could also arise within the house church movement.

Oh, I certainly don't deny that. But the issue isn't even "house church vs XYZ". The term house church is becoming institutionalized in its own way. The issue, as always, is "What does the BIBLE say, and are we gonna do the Word, or do our own thing?"