By: Thomas F. Booher If we want to know how to order our worship services today, going to the book of Acts or even I Corinthians isn't really the best thing to do. Why? For one thing, the call to "let all things be done decently and in order" of I Cor. 14:40 is about speaking in tongues, prophets speaking, where only two or at most three speak, with an interpreter for tongues, and with the others judging the two or three prophets speaking, for "the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets" I Cor. 14:32. We should turn to the pastoral epistles, Paul's instructions to Timothy and Titus, for a better look at the Church's structure and worship today. Prophecies and tongues were bound to the apostolic era, and were bound to pass away, as I Cor. 13 itself indicates. I-2 Timothy and Titus show us what Paul was bequeathing, the order he was setting up after he/the apostles would depart. The Church is built upon "the foundation of the apostles a
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