9th PP

The book discusses the comparison between the structure of a state and the church. The purpose of the church is to bring people to Christ, just as the state is designed to function with workers and specific roles. Both require organization and specific functions to be effective. Without these roles in place, the church would be unable to effectively share the message of Jesus. So our next statement from the book, the statement goes, well, to start things off first, in the book there's a chapter where it's basically comparing, you could say, a state and all of the, you could say like the government, let's say the people in charge, the governors, the workers, everything has its own specific, you could say, its own specific flow. You have to have workers to do certain jobs, and then you have to have certain jobs for, you could say, a community to function, and as this gets bigger and bigger, we go into a state, and then obviously bigger and bigger, we go into a country. But it's taking that comparison and comparing that with the church. So here's one of his quotes, it says, in the same way, churches exist for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. Kind of basically saying church exists, its full purpose is to basically bring in people to Jesus. And then you have all these other jobs, like in the church you have a pastor, you have deacons, you have ushers, you have the worship team, so there's all these things that need to be in place to kind of make this whole thing function, similarly as he compares to a state where you have to have laborers, buildings, all these other things, I don't know what you would put to add to that, but what do you think? So for the church versus state, so as you said, the state must have laborers and workers to have a functioning state. And also, I guess state or country, they must have an army, they must have specific things in order for it to work, because other than that, it's going to be like a useless country that everyone could just, I guess, destroy, I don't know. Same thing. And it's all for people to have a good life and to prosper. These agencies are set in place to, you could say, promote a better way of life. The church is there to promote Christianity and Christ. Yeah, and with the church, too, if it doesn't have, I guess, the specific roles in place, like the pastor and the deacon, the church is going to be useless, because then you wouldn't be able to share the message of Jesus clearly to other people. Instead, it would just kind of, I guess, not be...