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4041 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 17 (John Norton Loughborough)
The Church Christ’s Body
4042 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 17.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
… body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.” Colossians 1:17, 18. Of Christ’s body it …
4043 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 18.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the church : and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands …
4044 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 18.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the church as filling “up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church.” Colossians 1:24. Again we read …
4045 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 21.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the body of the church. Many live for themselves alone. They look upon their lives with great complacency, flattering themselves that they are blameless …
4046 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 40.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the church. Civil rulers have to do with temporal affairs and men’s bodies; but the rulers here mentioned are engaged in carefully caring for the souls of …
4047 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 51.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… church, neither is he allowed to urge his opinions against the opinions of the church. If there were no church discipline and government, the church would …
4048 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 52.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the church, thus acknowledging the power that he has invested in it as a channel of light to the world. It is Christ’s organized body upon the earth, and respect …
4049 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 58.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
… human body: “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all …
4050 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 69.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the church in apostolic times we quote: “The church was in danger in the apostles’ day of being imposed upon and deceived by false teachers. Therefore the brethren …
4051 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 69.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… entire body of the early church, we learn by reading the record of the council held at Jerusalem over the question of circumcision (recorded in Acts 15 ), how …
4052 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 71.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… Christian churches.”- The Spirit of Prophecy 3:369, 376, Edition of 1878.
4053 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 72.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the church has been fitly framed together; that is, after it is properly organized, each person filling his or her appropriate place in the body, its growth …
4054 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 87.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… another church. No church can be organized by man’s invention but what it becomes Babylon the moment it is organized. The Lord organized his own church by …
4055 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 89.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… a body they were opposed to any form of church organization. No church records were kept, not even a list of members. If a person was sincere in his faith, and was …
4056 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 91.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the body of Christ-the church-is a growth in “ all things ,” then in that growth there will be seen a system of order such as is essential for the harmonious development …
4057 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 108.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… Creek church, Jan. 26, 1859. The proposed plan was so reasonable and consistent that it was readily accepted and acted upon by the generous and liberal hearted …
4058 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 120.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… Gentile churches. Elders from Jerusalem and Antioch were present; and the most influential churches were represented.... The entire body of Christians were …
4059 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 125.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the churches in the State. And the church is a body of Christians associated together with the simple covenant to keep the commandments of God, and the faith …
4060 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 126.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
“Where bodies of believers are brought out on the truth in new places, we would not recommend the immediate formation of a church. In such cases let a leader …