SEMESTER 2 328 – The Church Business Meeting BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY II LESSON # 28 THE CHURCH BUSINESS MEETING Read Acts 1:15-26, Acts 15:1-22. INTRODUCTION: 1. We need go no further than the New Testament to justify the church business meeting. 2. However, as we observe the trouble in some business meetings today, we…

SEMESTER 2 329 – The Church’s Provision for the Poor BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY II LESSON # 29 THE CHURCH’S PROVISION FOR THE POOR Read Acts 6:1-4, Gal. 2:9-10, I Tim. 5:1-16. INTRODUCTION: 1. These verses and others, as well as Christian compassion, forbid us to be insensitive to poverty. 2. Moreover, they assure us that…

SEMESTER 2 330 – Speaking in the Church BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY II LESSON # 30 SPEAKING IN THE CHURCH Read Acts 1:15, Acts 2:14, I Cor. 14:1-40. INTRODUCTION: 1. It is evident from the above verses in Acts and hundreds of others that speaking was an original and important function in the church. 2. Understand,…

SEMESTER 2 331 – Prayer in the Church BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY II LESSON # 31 PRAYER IN THE CHURCH INTRODUCTION: 1. Public prayer in (groups called) churches, ranges from meaningless forms read from prayer books to meaningless jabber by dozens of people at once. 2. In response to one of these or…

SEMESTER 2 332 – Music in the Church BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY II LESSON # 32 MUSIC IN THE CHURCH INTRODUCTION: 1. There are few areas of church practice which beget more controversy than music. 2. Scripture is extremely scarce on this subject. 3. For this reason, personal taste often prevails and becomes…

SEMESTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO BIC AND ACKNOWLEGEMENTS BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE INTRODUCTION TO BIC This introduction to the BIC is the first lecture in all four subjects. This introduction only needs to be listened to once for an overview of the course as a whole. It is included in each first semester so regardless of what subject you start…

SEMESTER 1 301 – Intoduction to Ecclessiology and the Importance of the Church BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY I LESSON # 1 THE INTRODUCTION TO AND IMPORTANCE OF THE CHURCH INTRODUCTION: 1. There is much talk, proper and improper. Is the church really this im­portant? 2. Some say it is, in fact, salvation (sace­rdotalism)…

SEMESTER 1 302 – The Definition of the Word Church BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY I LESSON # 2 THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD CHURCH INTRODUCTION:  1. When you hear someone say church, it is almost like the word the, it means nothing until you hear the total statement of the speaker. III: “Satan’s…

SEMESTER 1 303 – The Definition of the Word Church (Continued) and Exposition # 1 BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY I LESSON # 3 THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD CHURCH (CONTINUED) AND SCRIPTURAL EXPOSITION  INTRODUCTION: 1. In the previous lesson, I pointed out that at least 85 of the 112 usages of the word church…

SEMESTER 1 304 – The Definition of the Word Church (Continued) and Exposition # 2 BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE:  ECCLESIOLOGY I LESSON # 4 THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD CHURCH (CONTINUED) AND SCRIPTURAL EXPOSITION INTRODUCTION: 1. In the previous lesson we were simply studying Scriptures containing the word church. 2. The proposition was that…