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I said at the beginning that I knew why the pastors are in crisis. All your comments have been interesting and worth a read, except a couple, and some of you have alluded to what I believe is the situation. You can disagree with me here but I believe that the problems are of our own making...

NO, there is no indication that they all met together on Sundays. They were a home church until the catholic church mucked things up.

I will point out some of the glaring mistakes you are making in your attempt to justify your dogma. Of course it mentions many times the wife of a pastor doesn't teach. In all the scriptures about teaching in the church, not once does it mentiion that women teach apart from older women teaching...

The sin they committed was eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Having made a study of the New Testament Church for the last 10 years, I can honestly say without equivication that you are wrong. First of all, pastors were not the people that were in charge of the New Testament Church (NTC) Always without exception, the church was under the authority of a...

Number 7 is probably the most relevant of them all. If anyone is a member of a denominational church, it stands to reason that you are only going to hear the interpretation of that denomination so you are automatically shut off from the whole counsel of God. I doubt if any denominational church...

What would be even better if Elders were appointed as they were in the New Testament Church. Then you would have a lot more people to carry the load and allow the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist the shepherd and the teacher to fulfill their ministry.

The New Testament Church by and large was always a large church such as the Church in Corinth. There was only one church in each town which was governed by a body of Elders (not pastors) and they met in homes throughout the city or town. But they never saw themselves as different churches. Just...

If you are not sure may I suggest that you do some basic study so that you can be sure. I do not comment on anything until and unless I have done extensive study on the subject as I do not want to bore people with conjecture.

They passed a law like that in Vicotria, Australia last year.

I never called Catholics Christian.

Irrelevant as catholics were never mentioned and some catholics are Christians and some are not and some protestants are christians and some are not.

If you are doin g a study of the life of the New Testament Church, you cannot leave the first century as that is where it all began.

Don't you? There is an implication in what you said.

Waht is a "husband wife?" I have never come across one of those before.

Waht you need to know is that I don't tell lies and that the information came from a reliable protestant ministry.

But he won't be pastoring any church as he is dead.

Does he? Why is it then that their are different interpretations to one verse of sciripture? Doesn't the Holy SPirit know his own miond?

You have hit the nail on the head, apart from Elders being paid which they weren't and there was no pulpit ministry in the NTC.

Tell me something I don't know.