(3) _Rom. 12:6‐8_ (A. D. 58)—“_And having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; or ministry_ [διακονίαν], _let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching; or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, let him do it with liberality; he that ruleth_ [ὁ προῖσταμένος], _with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness_.” (4) _Phil. 1:1_ (A. D. 62)—“_Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops_ [ἐπισκόποις, marg.: ‘_overseers_’] _and deacons_ [διακόνοις].” (5) _Eph. 4:11_ (A. D. 63)—“_And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers_ [ποιμένας καὶ διδασκάλους].” (6) _1 Tim. 3:1, 2_ (A. D. 66)—“_If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. The bishop_ [τὸν ἐπίσκοπον] _therefore must be without reproach_.” On this last passage, Huther in Meyer’s Com. remarks: “Paul in the beginning looked at the church in its unity,—only gradually does he make prominent its leaders. We must not infer that the churches in earlier time were without leadership, but only that in the later time circumstances were such as to require him to lay emphasis upon the pastor’s office and work.” See also Schaff, Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, 62‐75. McGiffert, in his Apostolic Church, puts the dates of Paul’s Epistles considerably earlier, as for example: _1 Thess._, circ. 48; _1 Cor._, c. 51, 52; _Rom._, 52, 53; _Phil._, 56‐58; _Eph._, 52, 53, or 56‐58; _1 Tim._, 56‐58. But even before the earliest Epistles of Paul comes _James 5:14_—“_Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church_”—written about 48 A. D., and showing that within twenty years after the death of our Lord there had grown up a very definite form of church organization.