Q & A - Church Order
Questions 232 & 333 (COD Page 903)
232. Please e-...(Next question, and then I think we got one more, and then we–we’ll stop.) Please explain just how the gifts of tongues are to operate in our church. I have did that. When can the church be put in order as...or just where the gifts are to operate? We’ve just explained that.
233. Just how many c-h-r-i-s-t-m-a...Could you see what that is? [Brother Billy Paul says, “Instruments.”–Ed.] Oh. Instruments. How many instruments are we to have in church besides organ and piano?
145 Well, it depends on if you had a string band or whatever you had, you see. I don’t know what you got, what this means, I don’t understand it. But the organ and the piano are property of the church. Now, if the song leader would take a notion to have trumpets and cornets and so forth like that, and somebody’s come in the church and they play these instruments...And they’re in a band, and–and then, course, then that’s for your trustees, to take it up with the trustees and see if they got money to buy their instruments and so forth, or whatever like that. I guess that’s what their question is.
146 But if they have their own instruments, wonderful. If they don’t have their own instruments, and they’re a member here of a band, not just a person runs in here and plays once in a while, and runs out like that, it’s got to be a band in the church. The church wouldn’t buy a–a–a trumpet for a man that plays it here and tomorrow night somewhere else, and somewhere else, and drop in once in a while and play a little bit. No, sir. It’s got to be a band right here, organized band with the–the leader, and then the church, talk to them about buying the instruments.