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Christian Reconstructionism - Appendixes of the references to the church in the NT, as Perks himself admits, have to do with the institute church, but each of Paul's major Epistles is addressed to a local congregation, a part of the institute church. One of them, Philippians, specifically mentions the "bishops and deacons" of the church (I: I), the offices that among other things give "institutional form" to the church. We dispute also the idea that the body of believers manifests itself apart...