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QUESTIONS:

1. Each local church was to have its own elders.
T or F?

2. There was a plurality of elders who were also called bishops or over each local church.
T or F?

3. The elders have the rule or oversight over "one flock" and that is the local church they themselves are members of.
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4. Peter wrote to elders saying, "Feed the flock of God which is you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind" (I Peter 5:2).

5. Paul addressed the elders of the church at Ephesus when he said, "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood" (Acts 20:28).

6. Elders or evangelists can build a religious organization consisting of many local congregations under the oversight of a single administrative body by applying Peter's and Paul's instruction to elders in I Pet. 5:2, Acts 20:28.
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7. Evangelists or preachers do not have to submit to the authority of the elders in church.
T or F?

8. The contribution the church at Corinth made up to be sent to the needy saints at Jerusalem was its own gift. It was to be sent by the messengers the church itself approved of.
T or F?

9. The entire work of the church along with watching for the souls of the members is under the oversight of the elders.
T or F?

10. Members are to obey the elders who have the rule over them.
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11. Elders served as elders only over the local church in the New Testament.
T or F?