Part 3

Question 1

Ministering to the needs requires leaders.

Answer 1

Acts 6:1-7

Question 2

What points to a local church being an organized body of believers.

Answer 2

Church ordinances and ministries

Question 3

Minimal government

Answer 3

• led by a small group of leaders

Question 4

National Government

Answer 4

• the head of the state organized a group of churches to be one national church
• “we ought to obey God rather than men” Acts 5:29
• there is no example of church

Question 5

Hierarchical Government

Answer 5

• Roman Catholics
• believes in the unbroken line of succession beginning of the Apostle Paul

Question 6

Congregational Government

Answer 6

• decision is based upon the whole congregation (choosing leaders, etc.)
• all are priests but not all function in the same way
• Matt. 18:15-17 (church discipline)

Question 7

Federal Government

Answer 7

• individual members give some of their powers to leaders
• the elders rule the church
• Heb. 13:17; Acts 14:23

Question 8

Pastors

Answer 8

Same as elders and bishops