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The Good afternoon, and welcome to the Narrow Path radio broadcast.

My name is Steve Gregg, and we're live for an hour each week the afternoon taking your calls.

If you have questions you'd like to raise for conversation on the air about the Bible or the Christian faith,

this is one place you can bring those things up to talk about.

We will talk about them.

If you see things differently from the host, I want to balance comment with your own insights.

Feel free to do that.

The number is 844-484-57-37.

That's 844-484-57. And I don't have any announcements to make today except that this coming Saturday

is the third Saturday of the month. And so you men who come to the men's Bible study in Temecula, that's going to be this week. It's only once a month. And that's a Saturday morning. By the way, if you've never been there, information about it, can be found at our website, the Narrowpath.com. If you're a man, you're welcome to join us at 8 o'clock this Saturday in Temecula.

All right, we're going to go to the phones and talk to Alan calling from Grass Valley, California.

Alan, welcome to the narrow path.

Thanks for calling.

Good afternoon.

I have a two-part question.

They're closer related, and they involve apostle appointing an elder in a church.

And scripture clearly says Timothy and Titus were granted authority to appoint by Paul,

but it also implies that we're going to have elders in the church today, and the appointing,

the person doing the appointing wasn't granted that authority.

So they're getting their authority from somewhere.

Can you help me understand where that authority comes from?

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