and Church Cooperation

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andChurch Cooperation
Liberalism

• Can churches do every kind of work that is
• right for individual Christians to do?
• Can individual Christians do certain kinds of
  work
• which the church has no scriptural right to do?

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Church Cooperation
Teaching Gods Word IS a Work of the Church

• Church to be pillar and ground of the truth (1
  Tim 315 Eph 38-11)
• Philippi sent contributions directly to Paul
  (Phil 415-17)
• Churches cooperated in preaching the gospel in
  distant places (2 Cor 118)

Each individual congregation (local church) sent
funds for evangelism directly to the individual
supported
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Church Cooperation
Ways in Which New Testament Churches Did NOT
Cooperate in the Work of Preaching the Gospel

• One church appointed itself to be a sponsoring
  church and selected and appointed preachers
• (Bible Passage?)
• Sponsoring church fixed wages and decided where
  the preachers would go
• (Bible Passage?)

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Church Cooperation
Churches Cooperated in Benevolent Work

• By sending contributions to the churches in Judea
  for the saints
• Acts 1127-30 1225 Rom 1525-26 1 Cor
  161-4
• 2 Cor 81-4 91-15 Acts 2417
• In appointment of messengers to travel among
  churches
• 2 Cor 818-24
• In the use of same agents to transport funds to
  churches
• Acts 1129-30 1225 2 Cor 820-21 Acts 2417

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New Testament Benevolence
Gods Word PROVES That This IS Unquestionably
Right!
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Church Cooperation
Ways Churches Did NOT Cooperate in Supplying the
Needs to the Poor Saint

• Didnt send funds to a church where saints were
  in no greater need
• When famine was over no longer a need to
  continue the relief
• Churches should contribute when a famine or
  disaster strikes a church
• 2 Corinthians 821

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The UNscriptural Plan
Local Church
Evangelism Benevolence Edification
Sponsoring Church
Local Church
over
Local Church
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The scriptural Plan
Members Evangelism Worship Benevolence Discipline
Every Local Church
Over its own
1 Timothy 35 Acts 2028 1 Pet 52 Heb 1317
1 Tim 517
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Church Cooperation
Liberalism
and

• Make sure all we do in the name of religion is
  based on Bible authority
• Practicing anything without Bible authority is
  sin
• Matthew 159 Jeremiah 1023

Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who
abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the
Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and
does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
into your house nor greet him for he who greets
him shares in his evil deeds. (2 John 9-11)
2 Tim 31-5