Church Order

Now we realize that the church is responsible for its own, for our members here of the church, we are totally responsible as far as we have needs to supply them with. We are responsible for our own, that’s, steady, constant members of the tabernacle that come here and worship with us. We are duty bound to them, as our...

Now, this would be pertaining to the pastor here, see. Because he—he, after all, over the spiritual part, he’s the head of that. Deacons are policemen in the church, to keep order and to take care of these things, and feeding the poor, and so forth. The trustees are over the finance and the building; that’s what they a...

The deacons, your duty is to keep order in the church, with kindness and friendliness. And then you are supposed to, if someone gets out of order in the church, or comes in here like a drunk, or somebody come in. Like they shot that minister out of the platform the other night up there. You heard about that, that drun...

Yes, we’ve always had it that way. Have the Sunday school before the preaching service. And that gives a chance for the little fellows who attend Sunday school, to dismiss their classes. And if—and if they want…and the little fellows don’t understand it, and they have to set all the way through the preaching service an...

If it’s so agreed. If the pastor wants to teach the Sunday school and then bring the message later, that’s fine and dandy if he wants to do the double service. But if he doesn’t, then have your adult Sunday school teacher, see, for your adult class. And then if—if the pastor has somebody else there in mind, and the per...

You should put your classes in…Like a little bitty class that wants to have flannelgraph, that’s too much for a fourteen-year-old boy or girl. See? You should have someone to take a class for those little babies, some old mother or something who knows how to take care of them. Other classes, I think, should be somebody...

There you are, that’s up to you to vote your own teachers in. And you ought to do that, put them in there, get somebody. And meet with the church, and say, “Who’s…Who here feels led of the Lord?” And then get a qualified teacher. And then let it be done. It’s got to be strictly business, brethren. If the teacher can’t...

The Sunday school superintendent. And that’s what his business is. He’s not supposed to have anything to do with the deacons, trustees, pastors, or nobody else, he’s got a office of his own. Whoever your Sunday school teacher is, I know not. But that Sunday school teacher is supposed to see that every class is in its p...

Now, that’s correct, you’re doing right. Now, this is supposed to be deacons, I suppose, ’cause it’s right here, it’s a deacon’s job. All right. And by doing so, we have often…people has often gotten mad at us. They do at me, too! They’ll do at any man. See? A person that does that, there’s something wrong with that p...

I think taking up offerings in the church for people should not be done unless it’s for your pastor. And I think if someone comes in for charity, or something like that, that…Or someone in—in bad need, like one of our members here, our congregation, say if one of our brothers, and they have some trouble; well, I think...

All right. The tapes is by a contract. And if I…I don’t know just exactly when the contract is expired, but the trustees, this belongs to the trustees; not the deacons, the trustees; not the pastor, trustees. The trustees, ever so often, they—they write a contract, as I understand it. And if this—this is wrong, then th...

That isn’t Brother Neville’s job, that’s your job. See? You don’t tell Brother Neville what to preach on, how to preach it. See, that’s your job, you deacons, you’re supposed to do that. You take care of that. That’s nothing to Brother Neville, that’s your job. See? Now, if a policeman’s out here on the street and he...

I would suggest this, brethren. Now, there’s a great thing. Wish we had more time to put on it, for it’s—it’s…it—it means something to us, see. Now, the church is not a… If you wants to…If you want to run this tape down some night and play it before the meetings, that the people will understand it, let this be played;...