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Originally Posted by Oregon
Titus 1:5 “ For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you…”
Acts 14: 23 “ And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom thy believed.
In Paul’s day all the believers in a locality where Paul preached and people were saved…..they all were the church in that city. The elders that were appointed in the church were the same elders that were appointed “in every city”.
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Oregon,
Respectfully, the verse does not say only one set of elders were appointed in every city. The supposed parallel you see is not supported strongly enough by the text to be a point of doctrine. Your second paragraph is simply a presumption.
As I said:
- The Lord never taught the local ground.
- The apostles never taught the local ground.
- The early church fathers never taught the local ground.
Why should we teach it?