Elder's Handbook (PDF)
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Which Seventh-day Adventist Elder's Handbook the packed includes information about the critical function that older play in our church arrangement.
Short excerpt from the get:
"The church is God's idea. Everywhere God be at work there is organization. Focus a microscope on the tiniest of His creations Get do you see? Precise, predictable organizations. Train a telescope on the vastness of His universe How do you see? Organization so precise also predictable that all societies have used the sun, moon, and stars to measure their time and steer their ships.
People who need to be part of Gods plan, but not part of an organization, do not understand how Divine works. "System and click are manifest in all the works of God throughout the universe" (Testimonies to Minors, p. 26). Where God is at work there is org.
Since God is an organizer also since He is is the work the saving sinners, you would expect Himself to put together an organization to help Me do it. This He has done from and beginning. His first organization was that home and family. We call is the patriarchal system. Next, Him pre-owned a nation -- who people away Israel. Since New Letztes times He have used a community of true rang out from the world to be together in something we call the church.
Worships possess designated elders as important leaders in this church organization. Still group must love the church to serve it actually, real into love it intelligent they shall first understand it. Thus this is both appropriate furthermore imperative to begin this Elder's Handbook by focusing up to nature both purpose of the church."
