It will be some time before this portion of this study is started. I am now working on the Introduction which should be completed within the next few days. Most of the other chapters below are already in the book Separation of Church and State: Spiritual or Legal Entities in online form, PDF, or downloadable audio. Click here to go to the order page for books by Jerald Finney. After I finish the introduction which will be much more concise and informative than the Introduction in the above book, I will finish and publish Chapter 13, “How To Organize a Church according to Bible Principle.”
- Introduction
- Legal Meaning of Incorporation of Churches
- Federal Government Control of Churches through 501(c)(3) or 508 Tax Exemption
- The Incorporation-501(c)(3) Control Scheme
- Spurious Rationale for Incorporating: Believers and Churches Are To Obey Man’s Law
- Spurious Rationale for Incorporating: Limited Liability
- Spurious Rationale for Incorporating: To Hold Property
- Spurious Rationale for Corporate 501(c)(3) Status: Tax Exemption and Tax Deduction for Contributions
- Spurious Rationale for Corporate 501(c)(3) Status: One’s Convictions
- Spurious Rationale for Corporate 501(c)(3) Status:
- Spurious Rationale for Corporate 501(c)(3) Status:
- The Most Important Thing: Loving God or Winning Souls?
- How a Church Can Organize According to Bible Principles
- The Results of Ignoring the Bible Principle of Separation of Church and State
- Conclusion
Click here to go to: Why Understanding and Applying Church and State Law Is Important for Believers and Churches
Click here to go to brief video presentations of these lessons
Links to lessons:
- Introduction
- Christ Ordained the Church and Builds It upon the Rock
- A Church Is a Mystery, an Assembly, a Spiritual Body
- The Holy Spirit Forms a Church which Is a Temple, a Spiritual Body, the Body of Christ
- Christ, the Head/Bridegroom/Husband of the Local Church
- The Love between Christ and His Churches
- Other Bible Descriptors for a Church: Family, Etc.
- A Church Is To Be the Pillar and Ground of the Truth
- How To Recognize a New Testament Church
- Heresy and Apostasy
- Conclusion to the Doctrine of the Church
Other resources:
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Click here to go to Short Answers to Some Important Questions.
Click here to go to links to the written lessons.
Click here to go to links to the 3 1/2 to 6 minute video lectures.
The Rose of Sharon (Transcript of a sermon depicting the love relationship between Christ and His local visible church, emphasizing the importance of organization under Christ only as opposed to corporate 501c3 or 508 status or legal status of any kind.
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Click here to go to Articles, Essays, and Other Resources Related to the Doctrine of the Church, Incorporation, 501c3, Etc.
Click here to go to Essays on the Bible Trust Relationship: Links to Essays and Other Resources
The local church sanctified and cleansed by the washing of water by the word——————–A ministry of Charity Baptist Tabernacle of Amarillo, Texas led by Pastor Ben Hickam. "Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:1-3). ————————————Jerald Finney, a Christian Lawyer and member of Charity Baptist Tabernacle, having received this ministry in the Lord, explains how a church in America can remain under the Lord Jesus Christ and Him only. "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen" (1 Peter 4:10-11; See also, Ephesians 4::1-16 and 1 Corinthians 12:1-25). "Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it" (Colossians 4:17). "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church" (Ephesians 1.22; See also, e.g. Colossians 1:18).
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