For the last two years or so I have been completely immersed in reading and studying around the whole subject of church leadership. I have recently taught this course at College and will now post these studies here on a roughly weekly basis. Having been preaching and teaching for just over fifty years, having pastored…
Here is the audio of this post In the last study we saw that the clear and unavoidable teaching of Scripture is that elders are plural. However, even where there is a plurality of elders, more often than not, at least in my own experience, there is a lack of conformity with the second thing…
Here’s the audio: Having looked at the terminology the New Testament uses to refer to the spiritual leaders of the church – the elders, overseers and pastors – and before we consider what the function, or job description is of the men in those roles, we need to look at three things we find –…
Here’s the audio: As we look at church leadership structures and roles, it becomes more and more clear to me that so often tradition carries more weight than the clear teaching of Scripture. How right the 19th century Swiss Reformation Historian d’Aubigne was when he is reputed to have said something along the lines of,…
I’m currently immersed in a wide ranging study on biblical leadership and so quotes and articles on the subject easily catch my eye, as did this piece from Philip Towner’s excellent commentary on The Letters to Timothy and Titus (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006 p269) “Today…candidates for leadership in the church are often measured by the…
Sermon on Acts 6:1-7 and 1 Timothy 8-13
This past week I had one of those so called ‘lightbulb’ moments; though at my age they tend to be more like the new bulbs that seem to take an age to actually brighten up! Immersed as I continue to be in the whole issue of church leadership and the role of elders and deacons,…