Church Government According to the Bible. Simon V. Goncharenko

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Yarnell III, who suggested the parallel between the events of Elizabethan England and the focus of this project. As a result, the Whitgift-Cartwright-Harrison debate makes, in my opinion, an interesting introduction to the present work.

      As to the scholars who hold to a flexible form of church government, several recurring suggestions have been made as to why God has left us no definite order. Among these is the lack of evidence—the New Testament does not give enough clear evidence for us to decide how they organized their churches. See Davies, Normative Pattern of Church Life, 17; Morris, Ministers of God, 111; Fung, “Function or Office?” 36; Cox, “Emerging Organization,” 35. For the view that God never intended to use the New Testament to establish a blueprint for church government, see Harper, “Duplicating the New Testament Church,” 24; Von Schlatter, Church in the New Testament Period, 77. For the argument that our situation today is so different from the one in the first century that there is little relevance in seeking to emulate early church polity, see Schaeffer, Church at the End, 67; Lambert, “Church,” 1:650; Martin, “Authority in the Light of the Apostolate,” 81. For a more detailed discussion, see Daughters, New Testament Church Government, 10–14.


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