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Welcome!. Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones. Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 P M. Church Changes in the 1950s. Denominational Actions Historical Issues

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  1. Welcome! Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

  2. Church Changes in the 1950s Denominational Actions Historical Issues World War II and European evangelism Herald of Truth Divisions - “Yellow Tag of Quarantine”

  3. Church Changes in the 1950s Institutionalism Orphanages, homes, relief agencies Social Gospel Support to non-believers Fellowship halls, church “activities” Sponsoring churches

  4. Church Changes in the 1950s Sponsoring churches Sometimes misnamed “cooperation” One church overseeing another’s work

  5. The Sponsoring Church Church Church Oversight Church $ $ Edification Benevolence Evangelism

  6. The Sponsoring Church Example Church Church Oversight Church (Highland) $ $ Herald of Truth

  7. The Divine Pattern of Help First: The Individual Christian I Timothy 5:3-4, 9-10 II Thessalonians 3:10-12

  8. The Divine Pattern of Help First: The Individual Christian Second: The Local Congregation I Timothy 5:9-10 Acts 6:1-2 Acts 2:45, 4:34-35

  9. The Divine Pattern of Help First: The Individual Christian Second: The Local Congregation Third: Another Congregation Acts 11:27-30 Romans 15:25-27 I Corinthians 16:1-3

  10. The Divine Pattern of Help The issue – an emergency among brethren For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened; but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack--that there may be equality. 2 Corinthians 8:13-14

  11. The Divine Pattern of Help The scriptures teach that each individual congregation (local church) sent funds for the purpose of benevolence directly to the individual or (in the case of an emergency) to the church that had need

  12. The Divine Pattern of Evangelism Paul’s support from preaching From himself – II Thessalonians 3 From Corinth – I Corinthians 9 From Philippi – Philippians 4 From “other churches” – II Corinthians 9

  13. The Divine Pattern of Evangelism The scriptures teach that each individual congregation (local church) sent funds for the purpose of evangelism directly to the individual

  14. Absence of Examples There are no examples where: One church was overseeing the works of another church One church distributed other churches’ collections

  15. What About: Paul taking money to Jerusalem Two preachers meeting for coffee Christians going camping together

  16. Part of the Issue Can churches do every kind of work that is right for individual Christians to do? Are there works that an individual Christians can do which a churchhas no scriptural right to do?

  17. An Example of Error Wayne Goforth: I asked our professor of missions how to start, and he said we needed a "sponsoring church." Hmmm...never heard of it, but it was a church, so I figured it was ok, after all it was a church doing it and we were the "true church". We found a congregation who offered to act as such.

  18. An Example of Error For 8 months I went from church to church every Sunday, with slide projector in hand, asking churches to send my support to the sponsoring church. The elders of the sponsoring church had never been to Arizona...were 1,500 miles away from it! The sponsoring church was 15 years old, while the Navajo church was 25 years old...its just that they could not afford to pay the preacher.

  19. An Example of Error The sponsoring church elders constantly told us that when we got to the reservation, what we were to do. From Tennessee, the elders talked about possibly even moving the meeting place without once having talked to the Navajo members. We were informed that once a "game plan" had been drawn up by the sponsoring church for the Arizona work, we were to never "circumvent their plan.”

  20. An Example of Error They would tell us things we were and were not to tell our "supporting churches", saying "We are your elders, not them," because they were the sponsoring church, while the other churches merely sent money. After 8 months, we resigned from that..I did not know what the answer was, but I knew the sponsoring church was breaking the autonomy of the local the local congregation which they serve

  21. An Example of Error It is not unusual for the sponsoring church to support the "mission work" rather than the "missionary." The sponsoring church is often the one who searches for, hires and fires the evangelist.

  22. Consequences of Sponsoring Church autonomy is destroyed Bible Authority is compromised Works become ends oriented

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