Biblical Understanding based on the Record of Scripture
The Church of God and The Body of Christ are in some ways the same, and in some ways different. Understanding that helps us to understand where godly authority exists and where it does not. The organizational structure of the churches of God has been based primarily on lordship and dominion, an approach that is condemned in scripture and which brings a curse on those who submit themselves to it. True godly authority is given as spiritual gifts rather than by physical ordination and submission to men.
