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Understanding the role of a minister in the Church established by Jesus Christ may require not only study but deep soul searching within the hearts of Elders and Ministers. It has been 2000 years since Jesus called his first Ministers and appointed to them the Kingdom he and John the Baptist was preaching. They were understood to be one form of government which was not like the government of the other nations who had Benefactors who exercised authority but they were to benefit the people and provide for their welfare with Pure Religion by way of the Faith, Hope and Charity of the people in Free Assemblies through something Paul called the Perfect law of liberty.
This was not a new system of self government but was very old. The pattern of Tens had been used by Abraham and also Moses along with many other nations. Voluntary governments have been the rule in man’s history and not the central or even democratic authorities so common world-wide in modern administrations. It is commonly understood by historians that, “our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm.”[1]
Jesus came to bring the Kingdom of God’s liberty into every aspect of our lives. God’s precepts and character should govern us and the nations of the world. Liberty is conducive to growth and maturity. Virtue is the avenue of God’s grace through an international [[Daily ministration for Christians near and far and even the strangers in their midst. Faith is in The Way and the Sacrifice of our hears is a gift that brings us into a fuller knowledge of God.
- “The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Luke 4:18
If we are going to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness what form and structure was employed by the early Church?
The Pharisees were in conflict with Christ and according to Christ were also in conflict with Moses while the Essenes had many things in common with the teachings of the early Church.
There were congregations that were so united during the early days of Christianity that In Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he praised “the union and discipline of the Christian republic”. He also pointed out that “it gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire”.[2] The early Christian ekklesia was a republic in form and was recognized by Rome through the proclamation nailed to the cross by order of the Proconsul of Rome, Pontius Pilate. When Jesus rose from the dead to stand again upon the earth, so did His Kingdom. His kingdom now lives in the hearts of those who follow His way.
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A CORE is already defined as a group of heads of families bound by love and honor in righteousness.
But a Congregation of Ministers or COM is not merely a congregation of Elders. It has the capacity of a CORE which is not an entity but a free assembly but it also has some official duties granted it within the adjudication power of the Church.
A minister's Membership with the Church is or may be a limited capacity either by appointment or anointing, ex officio or ordination. Since a minister of the Church must be separate from the world he may have no part of a personal estate within the world.
A minister is part of the Body of the Church as a member of their Congregation of Ministers, "COM"]. A COM has no individual existence in the world but has its legal existence within the Church. That existance resides in their Ordained Overseer or Minister as the Church in order to remain Free Assemblies.
As minister ex officio they hold property as a trust within the Church but as ordained ministers they hold property as join heirs.
There is a reason Moses and Christ used these forms and relationships to build the institutions of God which are based on individual choice and liberty but remains an institution based on one form of government for the purposes of God.
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