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Four different offices?
Three Different offices?
Two different offices?
Three Different offices?
Two different offices?
baptisthac said:Four different offices?
Three Different offices?
Two different offices?
baptisthac said:Four different offices?
Three Different offices?
Two different offices?
RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
RAIDER said:Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
That is also what I have been taught. I wonder if we have any other examples in Scripture of one office being represented by 3 titles?
Matthew1323 said:RAIDER said:Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
That is also what I have been taught. I wonder if we have any other examples in Scripture of one office being represented by 3 titles?
The office of God.
RAIDER said:Matthew1323 said:RAIDER said:Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
That is also what I have been taught. I wonder if we have any other examples in Scripture of one office being represented by 3 titles?
The office of God.
So you are saying that a preacher is God?
No, but I believe that God is a preacher.
Matthew1323 said:RAIDER said:Matthew1323 said:RAIDER said:Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
That is also what I have been taught. I wonder if we have any other examples in Scripture of one office being represented by 3 titles?
The office of God.
So you are saying that a preacher is God?
No, but I believe that God is a preacher.
RAIDER said:Where I am heading with this thread is questioning how other denominations (and some Baptist) separate these into more than 2 offices. I wonder what the Baptist churches in the 1800s and early 1900s did?
Matthew1323 said:RAIDER said:Where I am heading with this thread is questioning how other denominations (and some Baptist) separate these into more than 2 offices. I wonder what the Baptist churches in the 1800s and early 1900s did?
Well, why didn't you tell us this before?
I will now let those that are interested in this subject and far more knowledgeable regarding this important issue proceed with their comments.
RAIDER said:Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
Messiah being Prophet, Priest, and King
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
That is also what I have been taught. I wonder if we have any other examples in Scripture of one office being represented by 3 titles?
Walt said:RAIDER said:Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I have always been taught that the deacon is one office and the pastor, elder, and bishop are one in the same. I wonder why the NT did not stay with one title?
Messiah being Prophet, Priest, and King
B/c each different title conveys a different aspect of a pastor's work.
That is also what I have been taught. I wonder if we have any other examples in Scripture of one office being represented by 3 titles?
RAIDER said:I am not looking from the angle of the Godhead, but rather from someone in a mortal's office.
Tom Brennan said:RAIDER said:I am not looking from the angle of the Godhead, but rather from someone in a mortal's office.
My wife is a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, neighbor, citizen, etc. The analogies are endless.