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THE OVERSIGHT OF THE CHURCH
God’s plan for the oversight of the church is revealed in the New Testament. The term “oversight” means “the action of overseeing something; supervision, management.” According to the New Testament, elders have the oversight of local congregations of the church.
IS ONE CHURCH AS GOOD AS ANOTHER?
It is not uncommon in our day to hear someone affirm that one church is as good as another. In fact, this is, allegedly, the commonly held belief of all the various protestant denominations. According to denominationalism, what matters is being sincere in one’s religious convictions, and since sincerity is what matters, the church one chooses is irrelevant. It is believed that all churches are denominations, and that all the various denominations comprise the true church of Christ. Therefore, we are told that “one church is as good as another.”
SOME BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH
The term “church” is a term that has many different meanings today. Some may use the word “church” to refer to a building. For example, “I’ll meet you at the church,” which means I will meet you at the church “building.” Another may use the term to refer to a specific denomination. A person might say, “In my church, we believe in having women preachers.” The word church, in this sense, would obviously refer to one of the denominations which have women preachers (cf. I Timothy 2:8-13).
