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A Guide to the Formation and Conduct of Christadelphian Ecclesias
The Title Page and Contents of the Christadelphian Ecclesial Guide.
Title Page
THE TRUTH IN THE NINETEETH CENTURY:
OR
THE LESSONS OF THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE PRESENTED
IN THE FORM OF
A GUIDE
TO
THE FORMATION AND CONDUCT OF CHRISTADELPHIAN ECCLESIAS,
IN
THE CHARACTERISTIC CIRCUMSTANCES OF AN AGE WHEN THE TRUTH
AS APOSTOLICALLY DELIVERED HAS BEEN
REVIVED
IN THE WAYS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE, WITHOUT THE CO-OPERATION
AND LIVING GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS ENJOYED
IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE
________
BY ROBERT ROBERTS, OF BIRMINGHAM.
(Editor of the Christadelphian.)
________
BIRMINGHAM:
ROBERT ROBERTS, ATHENAEUM BUILDINGS, EDMUND STREET.
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1883.
Contents Page
Introductory
1. The Term “Ecclesia”
2. The Name “Christadelphian”
3. The Apostolic Ministry
4. Revival of the Apostolic Faith
5. Problems of the Modern Situation
6. What is the Solitary Man to do?
7. The Administration of Baptism
8. Form of Procedure
9. Baptismal Formula
10. Course after Baptism (alone)
11. After Baptism (in company)
12. Objects of Ecclesial Work
13. Rules and Modes
14. Absense of Spirit Appointments
15. The Necessities of the Present Situation
16. Mutual Consent the basis of order
17. Exercise of Authority out of the Question
18. Serving Brethren: not rulers
19. Suitable Qualifications.
20. Ecclesial Control.
21. Mode and term of Appointment
22. Eligibility for Re-election
23. Arranging Brethren
24. Arranging Meetings open to all
25. Presiding Brethren
26. Recording Brother
27. Finance Brother
28. Exclusion of Business from Sunday Meetings
29. Fraternal Announcements
30. Mode of Conducting the Meetings
31. Introduction of New Brethren
32. Cases of Sin and Withdrawal
33. Examination of Applicants for Immersion
34. Basis of Fellowship
35. Disputes
36. Individual Offences
37. Ecclesial Differences
38. Dissatisfied Minority
39. Absense and Separate Meetings Unlawful
40. A Time to Separate, and how to go about it
41. Involved in another Ecclesia’s Trouble
42. Ecclesias in relation to one another
43. The true Secret of Success
44. Fraternal Gatherings from various Places
45. Marriage
46. Sunday School
A System of Rules embodying the foregoing Suggestions
A Statement of the Doctrines forming the Christadelphian basis of Fellowship
Class I. - Difficult to Obey
Class II. - Not Easy, but less Difficult
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- ORGANISATIONAL SYSTEM
- SOCIAL ASPECTS
- BELIEF SYSTEM
- DOCUMENTS
- JOHN THOMAS
- PROVE ALL THINGS
- PROPOSAL FOR ADVOCATE
- CONFESSION AND ABJURATION, JOHN THOMAS
- JOHN THOMAS ON THE BIBLE AS THE ONLY AUTHORITY
- JOHN THOMAS ON REPENTANCE
- DISFELLOWSHIPPING QUOTES
- PRE-ADAMIC CREATION
- JOHN THOMAS ON FORMER BRETHREN
- EARLY CONSTITUTION
- ON BEING EXCLUSIVE
- RETURN BY 1866
- ROBERT ROBERTS
- EXACT KNOWLEDGE AND OBEDIENCE
- INTRODUCTION BIBLE COMPANION
- PROVIDENCE AND THE INDEPENDENT MIND OF JOHN THOMAS
- ROBERT ROBERTS ON WHY THE TRUE DOCTRINES WERE LOST
- THE RETURN OF THE LAW
- ON THE HOLY SPIRIT
- BRYAN R WILSON
- PATRIARCHALISM AND WOMEN
- POVERTY AND RECRUITMENT
- INTRODUCTION TO PHANEROSIS
- DEMONS AND PIGS, BY BRANSON HOPKINS
- CREEDAL FLEXIBILITY
- HIGH CHURCH CHRISTADELPHIANS
- DR THOMAS - FREE ENQUIRY
- BELIEFS OF FORMER BRETHREN
- ALTERING THE STATEMENT
- HISTORY MYSTERY
- REDISCOVERY OF THE TRUTH
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- THE EARLY HISTORY-NORRIE
- GOSPEL BANNER 1867
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Christadelphian Quotes
You lay a great stress upon facts throughout your letters, and are incessant in your demand that I should attend to them. This is good; but facts have to be rightly put together, and then you must have all the facts. I do not think you put the facts rightly together, and you leave out some, I am sure.
(Robert Roberts, a Christadelphian Pioneer, quoted
by Ruth McHaffie in Brethren Indeed)
The Spirit of liberty, based upon the law of faith, is the Spirit of Christ; and this spirit all the Sons of God are privileged to possess, and having it, to breathe. I claim the right of exercising this privilege, as well as my contemporaries; and I require of them that they should do to me as once they loudly required others to do to them…
(written by John Thomas, the founder of the Christadelphians, when he was against creeds in
The Apostolic Advocate magazine, August 1836)
(John Thomas, from Apostacy Unveiled, p. 137,
quoted in The Christadelphian Magazine, January 1906)
Must a man never progress? If he discovers an error in his premises, must he for ever hold to it for the sake of consistency? May such a calamity never befall me! Rather let me change every day, till I get right at last.
(from a letter written by John Thomas in 1848, quoted by Robert Roberts, in Dr. Thomas: His Life and Work)
Do what is right; be valiant for the Truth; teach it without compromise, and all lovers of the Truth will approve you. For all others you need not care a rush!
(from a letter written by John Thomas to Robert Roberts and published in The Christadelphian magazine, February 1866)