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1. What does Paul mean when
he says that if a man desires the position of a bishop, he must be blameless
and must have a good testimony among those who are outside (1 Timothy
3:1-2,7)? That is to say, what's the meaning, according to the Word of God,
of these words 'blameless' and 'good testimony'? Furthermore, I kindly ask
you to help me to understand when a Christian really loses his blamelessness
and his good report and what the Word of God says to those who, being called
to the ministry, before or after they began to fulfil the ministry, lose
their blamelessness and their good report.
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2. If an elder of the
Church is left a widower and he remarries, can he continue to be an elder (or
a bishop)?
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3. Is it correct to call
the place of worship 'House of God' and 'Church'?
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4. Is it right that a
pastor should not work but be supported financially and materially by the
Church he shepherds?
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5. Can a woman be ordained
as a deaconess?
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6. Can a woman teach the
Word of God?
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7. Can a believer receive
more than one ministry from the Lord?
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8. Is it lawful during the
worship service to play musical instruments?
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9. Here in Italy there is a
more and more insistent need to establish the female ministry, as a sign of
emancipation; what do you think of this?
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10. On this web page, you deal with the
question of women's ministry, and let me say that it seems that you have
solved the problem in a very perfunctory way, and you hold offensive ideas
about women. If we believe that man and woman have the same dignity, how can
you say that the woman must be submitted to man and she cannot hold the same
positions held by man? Is it not much more judicious to set up equal
relations between men and women, in mutual respect and estimation? How can
you say, in 2000, that the woman must keep silent and be submitted to man
because she was seduced by the devil more easily?
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11. Why are we the temple
of God?
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12. Should an elder abstain
from drinking wine?
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13. Does the Bible forbid a
woman to pray in the churches, since it is written: "Let your women keep
silence in the churches" (1 Corinthians 14:34)?
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14. What is the scriptural
way to collect money from the saints for God's work?
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