{"id":649,"date":"2026-01-16T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdapearl.no1.au\/?page_id=649"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:26:14","slug":"not-for-local-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/not-for-local-church\/","title":{"rendered":"not-for-local-church"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"649\" class=\"elementor elementor-649\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d539970 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d539970\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee39449 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ee39449\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">This isn't a battle for our local church\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4461003 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4461003\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1beb03b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1beb03b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-09cba54 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"09cba54\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The church is set up to have representative governance. As such, each level of the church passes information on to the next level who then act as representatives to the level above, and so on. At this point, the levels higher than the local churches have not seen it essential to address this important issue until they have received requests from local churches to address the issue. If we are to have representation on this issue at any level of the organization on this important issue, it seems that the local church is the very place where it needs to start. It is when local congregations in one particular conference in Australia wrote letters to their local conference, and they in turn wrote to the Australian Union, that the Australian Union even began to consider it.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69549c9 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"69549c9\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50607e1 elementor-align-center elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"50607e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"mailto:sdapearl@yahoo.com?subject=Website%20Request%20for%20Information%20Pack%20&#038;body=Our%20next%20business%20meeting%20is%3A%0A%0AMy%20local%20church%20is%3A%0AMy%20local%20conference%20is%3A%0AThe%20union%20my%20conference%20belongs%20to%20is%3A%0AThe%20division%20the%20union%20is%20a%20part%20of%20is%3A%0A%0AThe%20church%20is%20in%20this%20country%3A\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-mouse-pointer\" viewBox=\"0 0 320 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M302.189 329.126H196.105l55.831 135.993c3.889 9.428-.555 19.999-9.444 23.999l-49.165 21.427c-9.165 4-19.443-.571-23.332-9.714l-53.053-129.136-86.664 89.138C18.729 472.71 0 463.554 0 447.977V18.299C0 1.899 19.921-6.096 30.277 5.443l284.412 292.542c11.472 11.179 3.007 31.141-12.5 31.141z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Click to Ask another question<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0cc8c4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c0cc8c4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a battle for our local church The church is set up to have representative governance. As such, each level of the church passes information on to the next level who then act as representatives to the level above, and so on. At this point, the levels higher than the local churches have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdapearl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}