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| Appendix 10 [[Guidelines of His Church]]
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| [http://www.hisholychurch.org/declarations/church/GuidelinesMinistrative.pdf His Church Ministrative Guidelines]
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|* What is a [http://www.hisholychurch.org/creed.php creed]?
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| * Why a [http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/polity/articles.php A Polity of Precepts upon Precep]?
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| * What is a Church [http://www.hisholychurch.org/mission.php Statement of Mission]?
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| Where can I find [http://www.hisholychurch.org/outline.php#ChurchForm forms of the Church]?
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	<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-top: 0.11in; margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always">
		<FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Things to do to
					form a Church</B></I></FONT></FONT></P>
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			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Besides
	the formation documents, each church and congregation should accept
	a written Creed and a primary Polity as well as a general Mission
	statement. These documents are brief expressions and summaries of
	general concepts and precepts, beliefs and convictions, structures
	and purposes of the Church. </FONT></FONT>
	</P>
	<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>His
	Church freely offers samples of these documents, along with forms
	and services. Although no Church or congregation is required to use
	the specific terms or forms of the Creed, Polity, and Mission
	Statement offered in the appendix, it is presumed that they are in
	agreement with those basic tenets of faith and purpose. Any local
	documents adopted by a Church should not be in conflict with those
	general documents which attempt to express the precepts, ordinances,
	and directions of our Messiah. </FONT></FONT>
	</P>
	<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Copies
	of any documents that a local Church may choose to use should be
	recorded with the overseer as a part of their report so that he is
	aware of any official activity or direction the church may choose to
	emphasize or take. The church believes in each soul working out
	their salvation with fear and trembling.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote1anc" HREF="#sdfootnote1sym"><SUP>1</SUP></A></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Some
	of the forms for the church are found in Appendix 3. The forms are
	for your convenience and protection so that no essential element is
	overlooked. </FONT></FONT>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>This
	material is the results of years of work, research, and prayer. It
	is our attempt to freely give what God has given us. The Church is
	not a business, but it is in the business of Christ - which is
	charity and love, choice and liberation, service and fruitful
	growth. It requires repentance and responsibility, faith and
	forgiveness, love and thanksgiving. As we take back our
	responsibilities, our rights return. As we forgive, we are forgiven.
	As we give our life in love with thanksgiving, we put on the whole
	armor of God and enter into His Kingdom. We cannot do this by our
	own will, but by divine grace.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote2anc" HREF="#sdfootnote2sym"><SUP>2</SUP></A>
	We are not our own salvation.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote3anc" HREF="#sdfootnote3sym"><SUP>3</SUP></A>
	But if we truly love the Messiah, we will keep His commandments.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote4anc" HREF="#sdfootnote4sym"><SUP>4</SUP></A></FONT></FONT></P>
	<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The
	following two pages contain Three Step general instructions and the
	Detailed Numbered Outline of those steps in the formation of a free
	Church. These are the same process. Two people must recognize a
	third individual to be a minister of Christ. By those two witnesses
	it is established that there is a Church where two or more are
	gathered together. </FONT></FONT>
	</P>
	<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The
	third person chosen by their testimony and solemnized by their
	offering becomes a minister of Christ&rsquo;s Church. An ordained
	minister of an order is called upon to be the overseer of this act
	of creation. He and his brothers in Christ become witnesses to the
	world that this Church is not of the world. </FONT></FONT>
	</P>
	<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The
	ongoing exchange and service of these relationships edifies the
	truth of our faith in Christ. The network of the Church, through
	these ministers of ministers, strengthens the whole community of the
	saints of God by extending the care and love of Christ across a
	whole nation of people seeking His righteousness. In Appendix 10 and
	11 you will find the His Church Guidelines to assist the ministers.</FONT></FONT></P>
	<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Without
	these structures and relationships, overseers from the world will
	assume authority, attempt to regulate the Church, and subdue it to
	their own will.</FONT></FONT></P>
	
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				&ldquo;<FONT FACE="Garamond, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=4><I>And
				as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.&rdquo;</I></FONT>
				Matthew 10:7 </FONT></FONT>
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<b>Footnotes</b>


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	<P CLASS="sdfootnote"><A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote1sym" HREF="#sdfootnote1anc">1</A>Romans
	12:6 &ldquo;Having then gifts differing according to the grace that
	is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the
	proportion of faith;&rdquo;</P>
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	<P CLASS="sdfootnote"><A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote2sym" HREF="#sdfootnote2anc">2</A>Romans
	3:24 &ldquo;Being justified freely by his grace through the
	redemption that is in Christ Jesus:&rdquo;</P>
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	<P CLASS="sdfootnote"><A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote3sym" HREF="#sdfootnote3anc">3</A>Acts
	4:12 &ldquo;Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is
	none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
	saved.&rdquo;</P>
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	<P CLASS="sdfootnote"><A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote4sym" HREF="#sdfootnote4anc">4</A>John
	14:23 &ldquo;Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he
	will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come
	unto him, and make our abode with him.&rdquo;</P>
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