Congregational Authority: Removing Ungodly Ministers - Biblical Analysis

Lesson Transcript

He says by inference that if they were ungodly, then the congregation had the power to remove them. He said the problem is they were doing their jobs well. For a long time, a long history of it. Yeah, yeah. So I think we concluded that the type of ministry you see at the close of the apostolic age was congregational. They had the authority to put men in and to remove them.

The ones who had been appointed earlier, which in this case were not necessarily by the apostles, but by ones maybe who had been appointed by the apostles. But we're not—ordination isn't the issue. It's the conduct of the ministers here and the orderliness of things. Join us in earnestly contending for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.