Tag: Elders in the Life of the Church
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Pastors Are Overseers, Not Overlords
We are going to spend some more time in Acts 20. The detail we will consider is one that we have already considered in this study, but I want to spend some more time considering it because it is what we see in chapter seven of Elders in the Life of the Church. We will…
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Universal Unity, a pipe dream
“At the end of our day in Philadelphia the parable of the two churches could not have been clearer: When leaders fearfully accommodate the culture- no life. When elders preach God’s Word and guard the sheep with love and truth- life. Faith-filled, God-fearing, Bible-loving, sin-hating, sinner-loving, cultural drift–resisting leaders were the key” (Elders in the…
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The Lead Pastor?
“It is often preferable… for some men in every church to apply themselves full-time to the labors of ministry, especially for those who will be involved in the weekly ministry of proclamation. That seems to be the clear intimation of 1 Timothy 5:17… My own weekly schedule… is filled with the rigorous study of preparing…
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What Is A Biblical Elder?
“The danger facing modern congregations is to read into the Scriptures our twenty-first-century ideas about church government. We have added plenty of bells and whistles: directors of mass media, pastors of recreation, Sunday School committees, boards of directors, not to mention all the seminars and books that tell churches ‘how to do it.’ The drive…
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A New Church Polity?
When we look at the majority church in our day and compare that to how the Bible describes the church, we see two organisms that seem to be completely different. This is true even with regard to the polity (governing structure) of the church. In the 19th and 20th centuries, there has been a drastic…