---
title: 'Symposium on the Institutional Church: Not the Ideal Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Quarterman Mallard'
date: 1897-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Preaching'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 6'
- 'Proverbs 24'
- 'Matthew 28'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mallard-1897-symposium-on-the-institutional-church-not-the-ideal-church
---

# Symposium on the Institutional Church: Not the Ideal Church

Essays urging preachers to sermonize whole Biblical books and critiquing the "Institutional Church" for diluting pastoral influence by adding secular departments, departing from NT patterns.

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