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The Truth In Print is a publication of the Valley Church of Christ, 2375 W. 8th Street, Yuma, AZ. 85364. (928) 782-5058 Unless otherwise noted articles in this publication are written by Bob W. Lovelace, evangelist. |
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The Truth In Print Vol 14 Issue 8, Sept. 2008 A Publication of the Valley church of Christ 2375 W. 8th Street, Yuma, AZ 85364 (928-782-5058)
They Don’t Have A Right To Be Supported By Our Local Churches
The matter of the Truth Magazine Lectureship has come up again (Guardian Of Truth Foundation’s). I ask you to consider the following points: (1) What they cannot accept tells what they are; (2) Their use of old liberal institutional slogans tell what they are; (3) Their silly comparisons tell what they lack.
I. What They Cannot Accept Tells What They Are.
Paul spoke to the church at Corinth of the right of gospel preachers to be supported and said, “Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel” (I Cor. 9:14). Gospel preachers who labored together each individually had the right to be supported by the local church. Again Paul said, “I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service” (2 Cor. 11:8). Nowhere do we read that they were ever supported as a “group.”
Today brethren have chosen to put themselves in a Human Institution where they “know” they have no right to be supported by the local church, one or several, and we find them belaboring the point that they do not involve themselves as a Human Institution with any local church treasury. Next Page |
