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CIVIL GOVERNMENT

We believe that God has ordained and created all authority consisting of three basic institutions:
  1. the home
  2. the church
  3. the state

Every person is subject to these authorities, but all (including the authorities themselves) are answerable to God and governed by His Word. God has given each institution specific Biblical  responsibilities and balanced those responsibilities with the understanding that no institution has the right to  infringe upon the other. The home, the church, and the state are equal and sovereign in their respective Biblically assigned spheres of
responsibility under God.

Thus, we believe that civil government is ordained of God for the interests and good order of  human society; that  governmental officials are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed, except when government puts the  Christian or the Church in jeopardy to the will of God, Who is the only Lord of the conscience and of His Church.  In such cases, any civil disobedience must be prayerfully and seriously considered before taking such action, and  only after all other remedies have been fully exhausted.

(Daniel 3:17, 18; 6:1-28; Acts 5:17-29; Romans 13:1-7; 1 Pet. 2:13-14)
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