"It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church."

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Source : George Eldon Ladd, Donald Alfred Hagner (1993). “A Theology of the New Testament”, p.579, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

George Eldon Ladd

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