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Michigan Macomb County
We make the Bible the final authority in polity as in faith. Manuals we need and have, that the facts and teachings of the Bible may be formulated in them for ready use; but these manuals are not final—the Bible stands open for appeal, not a book of discipline.
2. Practices arising from the principle of fellowship. Love draws believers together, and fellowship forms the local churches and binds them together into some form of ecclesiastical union. On this principle we
form conferences, state associations, national councils, and will some time have an ecumenical or pan-assembly.
3. Practices arising from the principles of purity. On this principle we guard the local church from the admission of the unconverted; we discipline the unruly; we guard the sacrament from the unworthy; we guard the ministry by critical examinations at ordinations and installations, and by discipline; and we exclude heretics from our fellowship.
Early Macomb County
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