The Peculiar Office (2)

In our previous article we presented our view re­specting the relation those clothed with the peculiar office sustain to the congregation. It was maintained that the tasks constituting this office must be thought of as affixed to or residing in the congregation; that those selected to perform these tasks are at once organs of Christ and of the brotherhood. Such, so we dis­covered, is the plain teaching of Scripture. Let us examine once more those scriptures sanctioning this view, and the steps...