Hai. Does sound biblical christianity teach autonomy of the local church or the presybetary/synodical leadership style?
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Seek Jesus, not doctrines of men or tradions of denomination or congregation. Seek Jesus fully and trust in Him and read His Word. There are many in alot of churches, regardless of denomination or congregation that are deceivers, deliberately lying for nefarious reasons. The eyes are the window to the soul. Be led by the Holy Spirit. Even here many are devils who seek to lead astray. Ask God for descernment and to lead you that way.
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TheBible has no.deltaed instructions on how the assembly is to.be organized our of what th the source of saving truth is and it’s sScripturer authority in the matters it speaks on.
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I think one church was envisaged but we have many thousands of denominations. It is not clear how formalised churches should be nut we have Catholics about half the number.. Mormons, Televangical, Jehovah Witness, Exclusive Brethren, Methodist, Anglican, Seventh Day Adventist…
These brands have their differentiation in the marketplace of faith!
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Local church is the hope of the world
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Both. Paul went and founded local churches, but after he was sent out by the apostles in Jerusalem. So there was the local churches, but they had a head organization too
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whats “synodical” ???
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Autonomy of the local church.
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There are only two types of church in the New Testament. The first type of church is a spiritual entity consisting of all believers (Ephesians 5:23-32, Revelation 19:7-9). Every saved person becomes a part of this first type of church but belonging to the second type of church is not a requirement for salvation.
This second type of church is the local church, which consists of believers and non-believers (1 Corinthians 16:19, Revelation 2-3). This church could be called the “physical church”, and it’s associated with a building and a geographical location. What constitutes a local church? Jesus said, “where two or three have gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst” (Matthew 18:20). During the time of the apostles, churches even met in people’s homes (1 Corinthians 16:19).
A third type of church, proposed by groups such as Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Mormonism, was not taught by the apostles. There is no worldwide denomination in the New Testament. There are local churches that are independent of one another, which sometimes fellowship with each other, but they are not governed by a denomination that oversees all of them. When Jesus Christ evaluated the seven churches in Revelation 2-3, He didn’t criticize the Philadelphian church for not being in “unity” with the Laodicean church. To the contrary, He commended the Philadelphian church for remaining faithful, while most of the other churches were not as faithful.
Though advocates of the denominational view of “the church” often cite passages like Matthew 16:18 and 1 Timothy 3:15 as references to their own denomination, the truth is that the New Testament knows nothing of such a concept of denominations, let alone The Church universal. Matthew 16:18 is referring to the first type of church, the spiritual entity consisting of all believers. 1 Timothy 3:15 is referring to the second type of church, the local church. And 1 Timothy 3:15 is not saying that the local church can define and change the truth according to its “traditions,” but rather it’s saying that the local church has a responsibility to uphold the truth that has already been defined by God.
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Both. Although churches may be in error about biblical church government, they may be otherwise sound in their biblical theology. Bible-believers should keep minor doctrines minor where there is disagreement, while at the same time keep discussing their disagreement in the unity of the Spirit.
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Acts 15
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