IntroductionActs 20:28 – Feed the Elders were over one church.Acts 14:23Alexander Campbell and others started the American Christian Missionary Society in 1849, which pooled the funds of many churches together under the leadership of a board of directors.In the mid-1900s, a similar apostasy happened in the form of sponsoring churches.Congregational independence is scriptural.Acts 8:4Congregational independence is effective.Colossians 1:23Philippians 4:15-16 – Everyone was able to hear God’s Word without a centralized structure.II Corinthians 11:8-9Acts 4:34-36Congregational independence is a safety measure.When one church wanders away from God’s Word, only that one church is affected. This is not the case in a sponsoring church arrangement.Congregational independence is the Lord’s specified way.
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