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MRS. E.G.WHITE WAS FOR DE-CENTRALIZATION AND FOR AUTONOMOUS CHURCHES. READ THE FOLLOWING WITH QUOTES:

Mrs. White made this statement in 1903 General Conference as part of what was referred to as the "minority of the committee". The "minority of the committee" was against the decision of the majority of the General Conference 1903 participants who had made the decision to be more centralized or hierarchical in their method of organizing the work of the churches in the world, though the same individuals had supported E.G.White position in 1901 General Conference against it. The "minority of the committee" had men as Willie White, E.A. Sutherland and A.T.Jones. Here are some quotes:
"God's organization must come from the Head, which is Jesus Christ, the Head of the church, and it reaches to the individual ...There was here presented today and endorsed, and appeal of local self government in a certain place, Very good.... but each Conference must be a self governing local conference, and each church must be a local self governing church, and each individual must be a local self governing individual. But no man in this world can be a self governing individual except as God in Jesus Christ is his Head.." 1901 General Conference Bulletin pg.26 A.T. Jones
"Where was Jesus Chrsit authority? When He did not have a position or a place? ... It was in the truth he preached from God..." A.T. Jones GCB pg.42
In 1903 as part of the "Minority of the Committee' Elder E.T. Jones together with others pleaded with the majority to hold to the past constitution of 1901:
"The Conference Committee governs itself, attends to its own business, and lets other people's business alone. The Union Conference itself is a self governing committee. It governs itself, not the confererence, not any of the churches, nobody in the conference." He was asked " What would you do with a man that would not preach just as the committee taught he should? He replied " Let him preach the gospel. I do not know what is in that question; but you all know what to do. A man is not to preach for the committee; he is not employed by the committee; he does not belong to the committee. He preaches for Jesus Christ; he belongs to Jesus Christ, and the committee must belong to Jesus Christ, and serve Christ, and let the other man alone, and let him preach the gospel which Christ gives." A.T. Jones 1903 General Confernce Bulletin pg156

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