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Old 08-24-2017, 03:16 PM   #238
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Originally Posted by Evangelical View Post
To be a church elder is clearly "official" in the sense that people (men, not women) were appointed:

Acts 14:23 Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church

It is this roles to which have belonged to men exclusively in the history of the church.

But it is not official in the sense of being organizational and permanent as in the Catholic or protestant systems. Those who get appointed as elders must have spiritual capacity to match or be appointed because of their spiritual capacity.
Evangelical,

Since Paul and Barnabas are no longer with us, does that mean all elders today are also unofficial?
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