Church Structure: Does It Matter to God?

Lesson Transcript

I don't personally think one form or the other necessarily matters to God. It's how the church is functioning. Is it functioning? Is it teaching the apostolic doctrines? Are the members living godly lives? If so, yeah, I don't think he cares whether you have a bishop and then ministers and deacons, or whether you have just a bishop and deacons. That's my own, or just elders and deacons. That's my own personal opinion. And someone just asked me a few weeks ago, well, Dean, how would you then do ordination?

Are you just going to have, would you not even bring in people from the outside? I said, no, actually, I mean, I'm about to go to Greece. We're going to ordain a brother there working in Greece. And, and so again, we're also sending another bishop from my road. He's going to come over and he's going to do the, you know, ordination with me. And so it's like, no, the things that are in place here, it's not independent in the sense that you're isolated.

It's independent in the sense of authority and how the Spirit works through the congregation in those sorts of authority. Join us in earnestly contending for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.