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4421 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 …
4422 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 …
4423 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 …
4424 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 95.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the body is plainly stated in Testimony for the Church 1:492, published in the year 1875: “I have been shown that no man’s judgment should be surrendered to the …
4425 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 …
4426 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 …
4427 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 …
4428 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 …
4429 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 128.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the church, the body of Christ, all come into the unity of the faith.
4430 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 166.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
Q.-In whom, or in what body, is the discipline for a church vested? Can one church make tests as they choose on tobacco using, liquor drinking, profanity, etc., and still be in harmony with the conference, or the body of Adventists?
4431 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 166.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… individual church to make tests of fellowship, independent of the conference, and the body of Seventh-day Adventists. The following Testimony, already printed …
4432 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 175.7 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the body of the church in matters of church discipline? In other words, will you seek the peace, harmony, and unity of the church, rather than press an individual …
4433 An Examination of the Scripture Testimony, p. 23.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the Church, it cannot be that literally man was made in the form of God; for the Discipline states, “There is but one living and true God, without body or parts,” and …
4434 An Examination of the Scripture Testimony, p. 77.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… and church of the first born, which are written in heaven; (margin, enrolled.) Not that the church of the first born were already there, but their names were written …
4435 An Examination of the Scripture Testimony, p. 95.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the body, the Church. The text does not say, “ We are willing to be absent” from our bodies, but the body. If the body referred to, is the Church, there is no difficulty …
4436 An Examination of the Scripture Testimony, p. 126.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
… professed church of Christ at the present time deny the doctrine of the resurrection of the body.
4437 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 122.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… Episcopal church in New Bedford, he decided to attend the First Christian church [not Disciple] and subsequently united with that body. ‘Here,’ he says, ‘I found …
4438 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 174.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the churches. They could not endure this ‘evil speaking’ of the ‘evil servants,’ and the churches that could pursue the course of oppression and ‘evil speaking …
4439 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 195.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… advent body, in one sense, as sheep without a shepherd, thousands of whom only a few weeks previously had separated themselves from all churches and creeds …
4440 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 282.5 (John Norton Loughborough)
… some church or society, or been appointed missionary by some State Spiritualist Association, incorporated as a religious body in the State in which it is …