Church Functions
Church functions in GKI are minister and elder. GKI deliberately choosing less number of church functions. Since Elder ( Greek: presbuteros) is a function which GKI believed as being permanent function since the OT to the NT. Whereas minister (Greek: episkopos) is an inheritance function from NT church. However there are a few congregations keeping on the deacon function in their fidelity to old Calvinism.
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