The relationship between Philip the Evangelizer and the "governing body"
I just watched Paul Gilles' new morning worship, where he makes the case that Witnesses (particularly those in full-time service) should go and do whatever the governing body tells them to do. And he uses Philip the evangelizer as an example:
First "the whole multitude" chose Philip to do a job. (Acts 6:3-6)
Then an angel directed him to go to a second place. (Acts 8:26)
Then he "found himself" in a third place, maybe just following the Holy Spirit or his own choice. (Acts 8:40)
Then he went to a fourth place, again without any specified direction. And the place he went had a comfortable climate, in an affluent area where he could raise a family! But Paul says that because he had the moniker of "the evangelizer", then we can read his mind and know that the real reason he went there was to preach. (Acts 8:40; 21:8, 9)
And Paul tied it all into essentially "we should be willing to do whatever the governing body tells us to do". This is despite the fact that the "apostles and older men in Jerusalem" or "The Twelve" never directed Philip to do anything.
Also Paul makes the statement that Philip was an elder. The Bible doesn't say that. Paul also says that his four daughters were all "active in the ministry". They were prophetesses, but that's not the same thing.