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''...And anything wrong in the church, God will make you answer for it. That’s right. That’s the way He runs His church. That’s the way it is in the Bible. That’s the order of the Bible. That’s the sovereignty of the local church. The pastor is the head. That’s right. Amen.<ref>William Branham, 57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2, para. 292</ref> | ''...And anything wrong in the church, God will make you answer for it. That’s right. That’s the way He runs His church. That’s the way it is in the Bible. That’s the order of the Bible. That’s the sovereignty of the local church. The pastor is the head. That’s right. Amen.<ref>William Branham, 57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2, para. 292</ref> | ||
''...the pastor is the highest order in the Church. The elder is the highest thing in the apostolic Church, outside of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings His Message straight to the elder, and the elder gives It to the people.<ref>58-1007 - Church Order, para. 60</ref> | ''...the pastor is the highest order in the Church. The elder is the highest thing in the apostolic Church, outside of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings His Message straight to the elder, and the elder gives It to the people.<ref>William Branham, 58-1007 - Church Order, para. 60</ref> | ||
''It’s official, as long as the church. In our church, it’s the sovereignty of the church. The church moves, or puts in the trustee, the church moves the pastor, or puts in the pastor. Whatever it is, it is the church in all. That’s apostolic. That’s the way it was did in the Bible time. Therefore, we feel that no one person, then, is a dictator or something in the church. We don’t want that. Every man, every person, myself, in voting in anyone, and just got one vote, just like any other person of the church here, just one vote. Isn’t what I say; it’s what the church says, see, what the church says in the body. You like that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Oh, I think that’s just Scriptural. That’s the way it should be.<ref>William Branham, 59-1227E - A Super Sense, para. 6</ref> | |||
''You all voted a hundred percent on it, so we’ve held right to that, see. The church is sovereign. What the church says, that’s what. Trustees or nobody else…The trustees is just, each one, a vote. The pastor is just one vote. It’s the church, that it’s—it’s the democracy of the church, the sovereignty of the church. The church, in whole, speaks. That’s all. And we like that, because we have no bishops or hierarchies or overseers or so forth to tell us this, that, or the other. It’s the Holy Spirit in the church, does the speaking. I like that rule, and it’s very fine.<ref>William Branham, 62-1007 - The Key To The Door, para. 8</ref> | ''You all voted a hundred percent on it, so we’ve held right to that, see. The church is sovereign. What the church says, that’s what. Trustees or nobody else…The trustees is just, each one, a vote. The pastor is just one vote. It’s the church, that it’s—it’s the democracy of the church, the sovereignty of the church. The church, in whole, speaks. That’s all. And we like that, because we have no bishops or hierarchies or overseers or so forth to tell us this, that, or the other. It’s the Holy Spirit in the church, does the speaking. I like that rule, and it’s very fine.<ref>William Branham, 62-1007 - The Key To The Door, para. 8</ref> | ||