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  1. 1. How does your church vote/how do you prefer

    • Raise of hands only
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    • Secret ballot only
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    • Say "Amen" only
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    • Raise of hands (or "Amen") generally but secret ballot for deacons or other sensitive issues
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    • Don't believe in voting
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Ever Sunday night we do, but usually its just to approve the minutes from the previous Sundays service.

We do not have regular business meeting. I know most churches do. At the end of each service I always ask if anyone has any comments or anything that needs to be discussed.

If anything is brought up, we will take care of it right them, and or let every one know what it is where they can think about it and set a time to make a decision on the matter.

On the 1st Sunday night of the month, our treasure give us the treasury report.

Seems this keeps things simple and things get take care of as they come up. Plus it has never caused any problems.

I must say, 99 % of every thing we vote on, everyone stands on the same side.


This sounds like something my last pastor did.
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We keep a records of each Sunday's services, it has the title of the sermon, verses used, how many were present, anything that happen to be discussed & or any business that may have been taken care of. Number of visitors present.

It can come in quite handy. Ever church I have ever been a part of always keeps such records.

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We keep a records of each Sunday's services, it has the title of the sermon, verses used, how many were present, anything that happen to be discussed & or any business that may have been taken care of. Number of visitors present.

It can come in quite handy. Ever church I have ever been a part of always keeps such records.


Yeah but then you vote? On what...the sermon title???
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Suzy, Please show me where I even hinted at such a thing.

< :loco

We vote on accepting the minutes as read or not. That is to be sure it is a correct and accurate record.

It may contain some business matters.

And I use a voice vote in this.

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If I may briefly go of topic on this thread I would like to ask a question that I have no definite opinion on. Is it indeed clear that that the apostles were supposed to pick a "replacement" for Judas? If they were that would give at least a degree of support to those that claim that there should still be apostles today. I wonder though if perhaps they might not have been supposed to do that. From the context it rather looks as if they decided they needed a replacement, picked two men, and asked God to let the lot fall on the one he wanted. It is interesting to note that this happend before pentecost athough they had been instructed to "wait" for the Holy Ghost to come. So at this point it would appear that they were not indwelt by the Holy Spirit. If they were indeed supposed to pick a "replacement" why does Revelation say this:

"Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb."

It only mentions twelve, but we know Paul was an apostle handpicked by Christ as all the other apostles but the "replacement" were. Who is it leaving out? :loco



lol, I suggest you study how many apostles are listed in the bible... you will be surprised at the number it's not just "12 or 13" depending on whether (you) believe that the apostles were supposed to chose a replacement for Judas.


But, I think it would be a good discussion as a separate post over in the biblical issues. The reason we don't have apostles today is not because it was limited to 12 (which I know you aren't necessarily saying), but because they saw Christ face to face... (as Paul did on the Road to Damascus).
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Since we live in a lottery state, we cast lots. That's how the apostles chose Matthias, isn't it? Boy, do those little ol' ladies love to throw the dice!

Just kidding, of course.

Mitch

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Since we live in a lottery state, we cast lots. That's how the apostles chose Matthias, isn't it? Boy, do those little ol' ladies love to throw the dice!

Just kidding, of course.



Mitch



I thought they liked yelling BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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lol, I suggest you study how many apostles are listed in the bible... you will be surprised at the number it's not just "12 or 13" depending on whether (you) believe that the apostles were supposed to chose a replacement for Judas.


If you are referring to the verse that calls Barnabas an apostle I am well aware of it. :wink I do think that the bible makes a distinction between the "twelve" and and "ordinary" apostle. If the "twelve" were all the apostles that there were in the biblical sense it probably would not have been necessary for Jesus to commend the church in Revelation for trying those that said they were apostles and were not. If the twelve were all that fell under the biblical definition of "apostle" it would have been so cut and dried that the church would not have had to "try" them. That aside though, today when we mention "apostle" we usually mean the "twelve", which is what the 11 were apparently picking a replacement for, and that is what I was referring to in my post. :Green

The reason we don't have apostles today is not because it was limited to 12 (which I know you aren't necessarily saying), but because they saw Christ face to face... (as Paul did on the Road to Damascus).


Well, I think there may be a little more to it than that, if there is not we would still need to try it on a case by case basis as apparently the NT church did. I don't know about you but if hear of someone that says they are an "apostle" I tend to disregard them right away. :wink While I have never personally met anyone that said they were an "apostle" I have met a few pentecostals that claimed they had seen Jesus in a roughly similar manner to the way Paul did. I can't say that I believe them, I think they were deceived, but I can't "prove" that they didn't.
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no, actually there are at least 18 apostles named in the NT... some say up to 23.

And Paul's vision/conversion were confirmed by Christ to others via special revelation.

I always wanted to know where Timothy saw Christ though... (or Silas for that matter).

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