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The New Testament Church, Part 8

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Introduction
  • Colossians 3:17
    • Local churches are authorized to provide for worship and edification, continued
    Notice that New Testament churches were focused on spiritual edification
    • Not any type of edification is a work of the church.
    • There is a difference between edification and what might be done simultaneously with it.
      • Acts 2:46-47
      • Matthew 9:11
        • Local churches are authorized to provide for needy Christians
        God authorized churches to provide for needy saints.
        • Acts 2:44-45
          • Acts 5:4
          • Acts 4:32-35
            • Acts 5:2
            • Acts 22:3 – “at the feet of Gamaliel”
            • Acts 6:1-3
            • Acts 11:27-30 – Some use this verse to argue for the sponsoring church arrangement, but that is not the arrangement we see in scripture.
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