Scenario 1: You were about to start a church building program. Your congregation has paid off its current building, and has been saving to start a building expansion. But satan raised up an accuser in your church who spoke a false witness against a church leader, accusing them of _________ (fill in the blank). The church began to split.
AG response: The local AG District office inserts itself into your church’s situation, thanks to newly-approved Resolution 12 (Organizational Assistance), and “bring(s) the church under district supervision” by reclassifying the church a “District Supervised Church”. Unbeknownst to you, the District’s Rules for a District Supervised Church allow the District to seize your church property and assets at its discretion. (For example, consider the AG Michigan District ‘Rules of Order for District Supervised Churches’, which state: “…if the Presbyter Board determines, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, that a church has ceased to be a viable church, or no longer adheres to Assemblies of God doctrine and practices, then the Presbyter Board shall have the option to take possession of and full title to all real, personal, intellectual, tangible and intangible, or other property of whatever kind of the church…”) Read the rest of this entry »
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