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2.4 How ACOP Came into Existence
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For such purposes) to buy, acquire, hold, sell or lease real estate or personal property, and to build upon, improve or otherwise develop real property. I believe this is the most interesting idea! The church was going to function as an evangelistic outreach but it was going to be self-sustaining and wouldn’t need to depend on the people to do it’s business. Now this does have drawbacks in that the people would have very little vested interest in the church as their money would be going elsewhere; and where our money goes, so goes our heart…I am not sure how much I agree with this statement, but I do find it very original as it relates to the church business we know today. If done well, the church could afford to house the homeless, feed the poor and provide various supports in their community.
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What stand out the most , point six. To print and publish literature and get them into the hands of the masses. This way there was not conflict of theology. This was what the ACOP stood for. To buy and sell real estate may because the founder might have been a real estate agent, that’s an interesting way to be financially stable as an organization.
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Number 3.
Our church is growing exponentially, therefore this sticks out to me. Having the ability to leave something to find bigger and or add on for growth purposes.
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I find the first point the most interesting, that it would all be one church with many branches. I feel as though we have departed from that the most out of all the statements, not necessarily in a negative way, just factually. There are many churches within the fellowship that have ties to ACOP but have little to no association with other affiliated churches. There often feels as though there is a great divide between any of our churches and we have changed the structure of ACOP from when it first started.
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