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dered man's places. We see in the Old Testament the order He required in the law of the sacrifice. Only certain people were to be in the Holy place in the temple. All others, who would enter the holy place, were either cast out or died by the hand of God. We see this order in the incident with Korah, because he and several others challenged the leadership of Moses and wanted to be priests also; Numbers 16:24-35. They died and all their families. God not only desires order He demands it. Look at what happened to Uzzah when he touched the Ark of the Lord; II Samuel 6:1-7. Uzzah died because a priest was to do that even though he was or thought he was doing a valuable service. It was because the Israelites were to learn order. These are only two of the examples in the Old Testament written for our instruction (I Corinthians 10:11). We are to learn order from the things written in the Old and New Testament. God has ordered the whole universe, how can we arrogantly think that order doesn't matter in the church. We have been given either plain instruction or a clear example for much of what we should do in the service of the church. Look at Acts 2:42; we are to pay close attention to the apostles doctrine. We are to fellowship with one another, break the bread as given by the instruction of the Lord, and we are to pray. If we neglect any of these things we will find the church lacking in it's functions and duties. Soon we don't have a church we just have a meeting of some like-minded people. What about the duties and responsibilities of those in service and leadership? There must be order, Eph. 4:11-14. This passage gives us order for the ultimate goal of these offices but does not give the qualifications of these offices or a job description. We need to go to other references for these. Since the office of apostle and prophet are not available to us any more we will not include these in the discussion.
The evangelist is the first one listed that we can fill. What are the qualifications for this office? Contrary to the belief of many, Timothy and Titus were evangelists. We see both their qualifications and their job description
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