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And pastors over churches. the early christian communities in fact were egalitarian. >> but the hierarchy did begin to emerge, taking on the form of the society around this young church and building on the vocabulary of the new testament itself. >> words like episcapous which means pastor or shepherd, which comes to mean bishop. words that mean an elder but comes to mean an overseer or a serve not that comes to mean deacon. all of these things are inherent already in the new testament. we see, though, that the structure of the congregations is much lasser. however, as these congregations conti...
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