Worship Schedule
Sunday
Bible School
9:30am –
10:15 am
Sunday Morning Worship
10:30am
– 11:30am
Sunday Evening Worship
6:00pm
– 7:00pm
Wednesday Bible Study
7:30pm
– 8:30pm
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Christian Study - Church
Organization
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Organization
of the Church If
the Bible is our guide for the organization of the church, the church will
have Christ as the head, elders (bishops, shepherds, overseers) to oversee
the flock, deacons to help with the duties of the church, as well as
preachers (ministers, evangelists, teachers) to preach God's word. Elders
and deacons must meet certain qualifications, and each congregation is
independent of all others.
Ephesians
5:23
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...Christ
is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
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Acts
14:23
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So
when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with
fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had
believed.
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Titus
1:5-9
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5
For
this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the
things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I
commanded you -- if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife,
having faithful children not accused of dissipation or
insubordination. For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of
God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not
violent, not greedy for money, but hospitable, a lover of what is
good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled, holding fast the
faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound
doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
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1
Timothy 3:1-7
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It
is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of
overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then,
must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate,
prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to
wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of
money. He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping
his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not
know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the
church of God?), and not a new convert, so that he will not become
conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil.
And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church,
so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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1
Timothy 3:12,13
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Let
deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and
their own houses well. For those who have served well as deacons
obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the
faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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1
Timothy 3:8-10
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Likewise
deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much
wine, not greedy for money, holding the mystery of the faith with
a pure conscience. But let these also first be tested; then let
them serve as deacons, being found blameless.
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1
Peter 5:1,2
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The
elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a
witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the
glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is
among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly,
not for dishonest gain but eagerly;
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1
Timothy 2:7
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for
which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle -- I am speaking
the truth in Christ and not lying -- a teacher of the Gentiles in
faith and truth.
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