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According to the LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants, the duty of an elder is to "teach, expound, exhort, baptize, and watch over the church." [2] Elders have the authority to administer to and bless the sick and afflicted, to "confirm those who are baptized into the church, by the laying on of hands for the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost", [3] to baptize and give others the Aaronic or ...
In Christianity, an elder is a person who is valued for wisdom and holds a position of responsibility and authority in a Christian group. In some Christian traditions (e.g., Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Methodism) an elder is an ordained person who serves a local church or churches and who has been ordained to a ministry of word, sacrament and order, filling the preaching ...
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, [2] [4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
The Church of God is a hierarchical church with an episcopal polity. [22] [13] The Church of God's highest judicial body is the International General Assembly. [23] This body has "full power and authority to designate the teaching, government, principles, and practices" of the Church of God. [24]
Elders perform administration to the sick through the laying on of hands, using oil if the illness is physical. The church believes that serving God and following Jesus is a "365 day per year activity", [25] not just a Sunday activity. Chapels of the church do not contain altars or crosses.
The Church of God General Conference statement of faith states, [1] and Atlanta Bible College advocates [2] as follows: the oneness of God (1 Cor. 8:6) that the Holy Spirit is God's power ; Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son (Matt. 16:16), and is our Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5) the Bible is the inspired Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16)
Andrew Nugent Dugger was the son of Alexander F. Dugger, a minister of the Church of God (Seventh Day) from 1874 [3] until his death in 1910, who was also the first vice president of the General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh Day) when the state Conferences were unified into a single organization on October 5, 1884.
The duties of members after they are received by baptism (Doctrine and Covenants 20:68–69) Method of administering the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (Doctrine and Covenants 20:75–79) The Duties of the Elders, Priests, Teachers, Deacons, and Members of the Church of Christ (Doctrine and Covenants 20:38–44; 107:11; 20:45–59, 70, 80)