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It is a noteworthy fact, when the founder of
Christianity left the world, he made no provision for any
quarterly, or annual, or periodical assembly of his apostles,
his ministers, or his followers; he appointed no time nor place
for them to congregate, to report, confer, or legislate; he gave
to no one authority to convoke such an assembly; and he gave his
disciples no reason to suppose the five thousand Christians
assembled had greater authority than two or three who had met in
his name, in whose midst he promised to be. And so far from
empowering his followers to combine and legislate for themselves
or their associates, he expressly defined their duties to be,
not the contriving and imposing of new precepts upon the church,
but rather the making of disciples among all nations, ‘teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. -
D.S. Warner |
