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Here’s the latest post in my series on church leadership Leadership Roles As we continue to look at church leadership structures and roles it becomes more and more clear to me that tradition carries more weight than the clear teaching of Scripture. How right the 19th century Swiss Reformation Historian J H Merle d’Aubigne was when he is reputed to have said…
Recently I had an all-too rare but most welcome experience in a church I was visiting. For about 5 minutes before the service actually began, there was complete and total silence in the building, broken only by the sound of a few people entering quietly. It was such a refreshing change from the noise that…
Charles Ross was a Free Church of Scotland Minister in the mid 1900s, serving in Aberdeen and Tobermory. In a lovely commentary on John 13-17, the account of Jesus’ time in the Upper Room with his disciples, he quoted others who had said of John 17, “This chapter is the simplest to all the Bible…
Old Testament Background As we look at the biblical teaching on church leadership structures and roles we need to begin, as with so many New Testament teachings, in the Old Testament, where it would appear the foundations have been laid for us. It does seem clear that the New Testament practice of church elders stems…
I have just added outlines on Exodus – Ruth in this series.