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--- public:ministries:nomcom [2024/11/01 16:57] – [Nominating Committee] Steve Mundall
+++ public:ministries:nomcom [2024/11/01 21:50] (current) – [Introduction] Steve Mundall
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 (Taken from 20th Edition, Revised 2022)
-The opening sentence of the preface of that first edition [1932] observed that “it has become increasingly evident that a manual on church government is needed to set forth and preserve our denominational practices and polity.” Note the word //**<color #ed1c24>preserve</color>**//  . This was no attempt to suddenly create and impose upon the Church a whole pattern of church governance. Rather it was an endeavor first to //preserve// all the good actions taken through the years and then to add rules required by the Church’s increasing growth and complexity.
+"The opening sentence of the preface of that first edition [1932] observed that “it has become increasingly evident that a manual on church government is needed to set forth and preserve our denominational practices and polity.”
+Note the word //**<color #ed1c24>preserve</color>**//  . This was no attempt to suddenly create and impose upon the Church a whole pattern of church governance. Rather it was an endeavor first to //preserve// all the good actions taken through the years and then to add rules required by the Church’s increasing growth and complexity."
+**NOTE:** it is ironic that this act of preservation is highlighted as late as the 2022 edition, when edits to the manual have now resulted in some conditions that are opposite the original text.
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