The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of ChristianityOrr, Charles Ebert
Religion
The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity
Orr, Charles Ebert
Christianity
The church is the body of Christ. Eph. 1:21, 22. There is but one body.
Rom. 12:4, 5; 1 Cor. 10:17. Christians are this one body. 1 Cor. 12:27.
They are of one heart and soul. Acts 4:32. There are no divisions. 1 Cor.
1:10. Christ is the head of this church. Col. 1:18. He is the door. John
10: 7. He is the foundation. Eph. 2: 21. He sets the members in the body
(1 Cor. 12:18), and prays that they be kept in his name. John 17:11.
Officers In The Church Of God.
God sets the members in the body of Christ, which is the church, as
seemeth best according to his unbounded wisdom. All are not an eye or ear
or hand or foot. That the church of God may be complete as a body it has
all the different members. Christ is the head, and the saved men and women
are the other members of the body according to their calling, all governed
by the head and consecrated to do his will. The ministry are the feet, the
burden-bearers, the servants of all. They have the care or burden of the
church. They carry the glad tidings of salvation. They are not to be
carried about and served, but they are the servants. “How beautiful are
the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings
of good things.” Rom. 10:15.
The following officers are mentioned in the New Testament: apostles,
prophets, evangelists, bishops, pastors, teachers, deacons, elders, and
presbyters. Apostle is from the Greek “_apostolos_,” which is one sent
forth to plant. Paul was an apostle. He was sent forth by the Holy Spirit.
Acts 13:4. He was sent forth to plant. 1 Cor. 3:6. Prophet is from the
Greek “_prophetes_,” which is one who is an expounder of prophecies and
revelations and of future events. Agabus was a prophet, a teller of future
events. See Acts 21:10, 11 and Acts 11: 28. Philip the evangelist had four
daughters who did prophesy, or expound or explain the Scriptures. An
evangelist is one who announces good tidings, while an apostle is one who
plants churches or goes into new localities, and through whose preaching
people are saved and a church thus planted. The mission of an evangelist
is to visit those planted churches and water them. “I have planted,
Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.” 1 Cor. 3:6.
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