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Churches have split and denominations have formed over the issue of church government. Yet while many Christians can explain their particular church‘s form of rule and may staunchly uphold it, few have a truly biblical understanding of it. What model for governing the church does the Bible provide? Is there room for different methods? Or is just one way the right way? In Who Runs the Church? Four...

episcope must be recognized and accepted. From this arises the principle of continuity by succession, which appears to be indispensable, at least from a human point of view.16 The second commonly held conviction is that the office of bishop in the church of God represents a partial (not total) continuation of the office of an apostle. Of course, the apostles had and could have no successors in their capacity as eyewitnesses of the resurrected Lord, with a direct commission from him. What the historical
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