Download or read book The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc. - Constitution, Government, and General Decree Book written by Church of the Living God and published by . This book was released on 1923-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decree Book can logically be divided into four major arenas: church history, theological propositions, organizational structures, and guiding principles. Church history has been and is being collected into a number of documents referred to elsewhere. The documents referred to earlier reflect the second and third major arenas. The present work attempts to bring to fore many aspects of the fourth major arena. The theological propositions are formally stated in "We believe?" or credenda terms. Organizational structures are copious throughout the Decree and range from ecclesiastical and clerical hierarchies, through the gamut of church structures and infrastructures, revenues and expenditures, official meetings and assemblies, discipline, and on into other prominent structural elements of the entity and their relationships to each other. The guiding principles mirror the highly visible "parental exhortations" expected of an experienced leader and "visible head." These principles, while not necessarily indicative of Bible preachments, are nonetheless conceived as wholesome and "safe" principles that will serve to guide future generations and development of the organization.