What Form of Government
Does Your Congregation
Have?
Is it Governed by God or by a Vote of the People?
What kind of government runs the Church which Jesus Christ
founded?
Think about it?
What form could it only be?
Is it a
republic, a democracy, a monarchy, a dictatorship, socialist, etc?
How about
none of the
above?
Since it was founded by GOD, it is the Body of Christ (Eph 3:4-6,
5:21-23), and it is guided by the Holy Spirit. (John 14:26)
Therefore it
could only be a Theocracy. In a Theocracy, the
body responds to orders from the head.
Now look at your denomination? What kind of government is it?
It
certainly is not a Theocracy because by its very nature, a Christian Theocracy
can be only one,
just as there is only one Holy Trinity, one God, one Jesus Christ,
and one Holy Spirit.
Your congregation is most likely a democracy or a
republic where the populace votes as to its governing.
I know this is true
with Baptists and Presbyterians, for example, and many others.
A democracy or
a republic, is in opposition to a Theocracy because
the head responds to a vote of the body, the people,
the members therein.
Now do you
really believe that Jesus Christ would found His Church to be governed by a vote
of the people?
Did not Peter and the Apostles say in Acts 5:29:
"We must obey God rather than men".
In Holy Scripture show me the verses where
Jesus Christ set up His Church to be run by
anything other than a
Theocracy?
We can take this thought one step further. Not one of the 40,000+
present day splinters of Christianity
can claim to be a Theocracy since none
of them can show that they were founded by Jesus Christ.
Only the one Church founded by Jesus
Christ can lay claim to be governed by a
Theocracy.
One last point:
More proof that the Church which Jesus
Christ founded is a Theocracy,
Matthew 16:18, "And I say
also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it."
Since Jesus said it is His church (my
church) and He is God, that seals it that it is truly a Theocracy and nothing
else.
Do you belong to His Church? Written by Bob Stanley, May 23,
2011
If not, why not?
Updated June 29, 2014
Galations 4:16