Elders in the Life of the Church: Rediscovering the Biblical Model for Church Leadership PUB199610 God sees your potential

God sees your potential

where he voted and spoke entirely as his conscience dictated and had more influence than any other member it its history who never held office

he found the vital inspiration of his life to lie in personal austerity

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at the same time as they avoid rigidity and authoritarian approaches

Elders in the Life of the Church: Rediscovering the Biblical Model for Church Leadership PUB199610 God sees your potentialPaul and Barnabas made a decisive move toward the end of the first missionary journey: they appointed elders in the churches they had established, entrusting them with responsibility to shepherd the young congregations. The need for faithful shepherding has not changed since that time, yet the leadership structure of most churches no longer follows this model. The authors argue that a return to the New Testament pattern of elder plurality best serves