![]() This calls for men to serve tables, men to look after money, lands, houses of worship, and temporal affairs in general.īoothe envisions a simple organization with a complex mission. In other words, because the church is wearing the form of matter, there is of necessity a material side as well as a spiritual side. ![]() Boothe appeals both to the meaning of the Biblical Greek on baptism and the practice of the first centuries of the church.īoothe argues for two orders of officers in the church (pastor and deacon) to care for the spiritual life of the church through teaching:īut the saints who must be edified live in bodies of flesh which must be fed, clothed, housed, and cared for. They will have been baptized as they were from ancient times: by immersion. Who is in the church? Repentant, redeemed men are in the local church. The church are the people of God that know no borders. Other times he would press for “social uplift,” but this book of theology was to describe what a man would do after being lifted up. Yet Boothe is making a case that is global, timeless built on a great transcultural Book. Injustice can be easier to maintain from a distance. ![]() There is one kingdom “.a body of believers, united together in one place according to the teachings of the New Testament.”īoothe sees the church as local, no “councils or conferences of churches or ministers.” For those of us who disagree with Boothe, his experience of the failure of national church groups should at least give pause. ![]() ![]() If you are redeemed, you are in one family, the kingdom of God. ![]()
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