Christ and the apostles give specific instructions for administering the Christian Congregation…
The answer will be based on the Bible (Sola Scriptura) and, specifically, on the context of early Christianity as described in the Acts of the Apostles and the diferent letters written by Christ’s apostles and disciples…
As suggested by the glorified Jesus Christ, the Christian congregation must be administered by at least one « angel », a « messenger » or a « priest » who transmits to the congregation the sacred declarations of God, through the Bible…
Still proceeding from the important premise that the Mosaic Law is a prophetic pattern of the Christian congregation belonging to Christ, we will examine what corresponds to the role of ministerial servants…
The elders are teachers, those who represent the congregation with prayers and if necessary, they judge in the congregation. The ministerial servants are primarily working in the material stewardship of the Christian congregation…
Should a Christian congregations be administered on a global or a local level?
To understand how a Christian congregation or a Christian church should be organized, it is important to refer to the spiritual administration of the Temple that was in Jerusalem, in order to worship God…
Jesus Christ speaks of this slave in the singular, meaning that it could be a single person or a group of people? When does He identify and reward this slave? Shortly after 1914, or shortly before the Great Tribulation?
The messages of Jesus Christ to the seven congregations are indications on the administration of the Christian Congregation…
Jesus Christ first commends this congregation for its endurance and vigilance, but then warns it against its lack of love…
Jesus Christ does not reproach this courageous congregation, but encourages them by showing them the extraordinary reward that awaits them…
Jesus Christ commends this congregation for its courage in the face of trials, but he reproaches it for its spiritual deviation regarding teaching and sexual morality…
Jesus Christ commends this congregation for its good deeds, but reproaches it for tolerating the presence of a woman who behaves like Jezebel…
Regarding the congregation of Sardis, Jesus Christ says something terrible: it is spiritually dead…
Jesus Christ expresses his « brotherly affection » toward the members of this congregation…
The message addressed to the congregation of Laodicea is particularly harsh: « you are miserable and pitiful and poor and blind and naked »…
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Table of languages of more than seventy languages, with six important biblical articles, written in each of these languages…
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