Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
The Christian Brethren believe men and women are created equally and all believers are priests and have different responsibilities. They believe God gives gifts to all believers for the edification of the body of Christ.
Dispensationalism is a system or method which attempts to define how God carries out for His purposes towards men. Adherents have calculated that there are three dispensations, which are the Patriarchal (that which is most powerful), the Mosaic (or Jewish), and Christianity. The key principles of Dispensationalism are the belief that there is a distinction between what God has planned for Israel and what God has planned for the Church. Dispensationalists use the literal principle of interpretation. They believe the…