Chooses Servants- Acts 6:2-3, 1Tim 3:10 Has Messengers- 2Cor 8:23 Pays Wages- 2Cor 11:8-9, Phil 4:14-18 Relieves and Enrolls- 1Tim 5:9-10,

Chooses Servants- Acts 6:2-3, 1Tim 3:10 Has Messengers- 2Cor 8:23 Pays Wages- 2Cor 11:8-9, Phil 4:14-18 Relieves and Enrolls- 1Tim 5:9-10, 16 Disciplines- 1Cor 5:4-5 Sends Out Preachers- Acts 11:22 Is Reported To- Acts 14:26-27 Has Worship- 1Cor 11:20, 34 Has A Treasury- 1Cor 16:1-4, 2Cor 11:8-

9

“LET NOT THE CHURCH BE CHARGED”

Individual CAN, Church CANNOT

Church CAN, Individual CANNOT

Show Piety At Home Take Into The Number

Repay Ones Parents Refuse Younger Widows

Marry, Bear Children Charged with Caring for Certain Individuals

Guide The House

Relieve Ones Widows

Drink No Longer Water Only

To Care For ALL the needy

Matt 26:30- Sung Mark 14:26- Sung Acts 16:25- Sang Rom 15:9- Sing 1Cor 14:15- Sing Eph 5:19- Singing Col 3:16- Singing Heb 2:12- Sing James 5:13- Sing

Show that the passages used DO allow for the instrument

Show another passage that does allow for the instrument

Admit it is done without authority

Show that the passages used DO allow for the instrument

Show another passage that does allow for the instrument

Admit it is done without authority

Show that the passages used DO allow for the instrument

Show another passage that does allow for the instrument

Admit it is done without authority

Acts 2:44- All that believed Acts 4:32- Them that believed Acts 6:1- Disciples…widows Acts 11:27- The brethren Rom 15:25- The saints 1Cor 16:1- The saints 2Cor 8:4- the saints 2Cor 9:1- the saints 1Tim 5:16- widow indeed (saint)

Show that the passages used DO allow for general benevolence

Show another passage that does allow for general benevolence

Admit it is done without authority

Show that the passages used DO allow for general benevolence

Show another passage that does allow for general benevolence

Admit it is done without authority

Show that the passages used DO allow for general benevolence

Show another passage that does allow for general benevolence

Admit it is done without authority

To Care For ALL the needy

To Promote Secular Education

To Care For ALL the needy

To Promote Secular Education

To Provide Recreation

To Care For ALL the needy

To Promote Secular Education

To Provide Recreation To Deal in Legitimate

Business

To Be A FUNDRAISER for

the Organizations!

Thus the “tail is wagging the dog.”

“The Christian Church has missionary, benevolent and educational organization to execute the work of the church; the church of Christ does not.”

“The Christian Church emphasizes society and the physical man by appealing to the carnal nature with church carnivals, bands, plays, choruses, dramatics, church kitchens, church camps, and elaborate fellowship halls. The churches of Christ do not.”

“The Christian Church has Educational Directors, Associate Ministers, and Youth Directors. The church of Christ has Elders, Deacons, Evangelists and Teachers.”

Churches of Christ didn’t have these in

1944

…what about today?