Authority is specified to a certain degree

• Example #1: Transporting the ark

  • Exodus 25:14; Numbers 4:15; 7:6-9

  • I Chronicles 13:7-14; 15:2, 12-15

• Example #2: Strange fire

  • Leviticus 10:1-2

• Example #3: Priesthood

  • Hebrews 7:11-16; 8:4

• III John 1:9

“Please go buy me a dog.”

• If you buy a cat, you did not follow the instructions.

Genesis 6:14 – “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood.”

Singing – Colossians 3:17

• Matthew 26:30

• Mark 14:26

• Acts 16:25

• Romans 15:9

• I Corinthians 14:15

• Ephesians 5:19

• Colossians 3:16

• Hebrews 2:12

• Hebrews 13:15

• James 5:13

Work of local churches – II Corinthians 8:1-4; I Corinthians 14:26; Philippians 4:15

• Provide for needy saints

• Provide for worship and edification

• Provide for preaching

Where is the authority for song books?

• We must pick some method by which we sing.

Where is the authority for the church building?

• I Corinthians 14:23, 26