Could a uncritical commitment to democracy cause us to compromise apostolic authority?
• I submit to you that an entity which has jurisdiction over a local church compromises apostolic authority. The number one contender to rival apostolic authority in our circles is not the Pope, but the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age – specifically democratic egalitarianism: the idea that church fellowship is formed by a one-church-one-vote schema coupled with a refusal to recognize differences of spiritual endowment and gift in churches because of a presuppositional commitment to an unbiblical view of equality. • Pastor Blackburn’s presuppositional commitment to democratic egalitarianism is seen when he envisions representatives from surrounding churches as having been present to vote on the formulation of the “decrees” issued from Jerusalem in Acts 15. • “Even though the church in Antioch is specifically mentioned and sends two of the most prominent men in all of Christendom, Paul and Barnabas, I am of the belief that many churches sent their elders and were involved.” • “Even thou
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