[count-your-change]

In short there’s no justification for elevating a job description to a title as Jesus said they were not to do.
It wasn’t just an oversight.

There were bishops, overseers, older men, but no Bishops or Deacons or Fathers, Reverends, Cardinals, Archbishops and the lot.

[MarkBsnr]

In short there’s no justification for elevating a job description to a title as Jesus said they were not to do. It wasn’t just an oversight.

There were bishops, overseers, older men, but no Bishops or Deacons or Fathers, Reverends, Cardinals, Archbishops and the lot.

Well, there are deacons, as Scripture indicates; there are presbuteros (priests) as Scripture indicates, and there are ekklesia (bishops) as Scripture indicates. I'm not sure of your objections.

[Iscool]

1Co 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
1Co 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
1Co 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; and another, I am of Peter; are ye not carnal?
1Co 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.