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Why Your Church Should Have Elders (Part 4)

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 B.J. MaxwellChurch Life, Pastoral Ministry

Jesus loves the church and has richly provided for her eternal health and glory (Eph 4.7-16). He sustains the church through a well-ordered, humble, Spirit-wrought polity. The New Testament teaches and demonstrates that local church leadership should be entrusted to a plurality of qualified men who, though gifted differently, are equal in authority and responsibility. Both biblically and practically, your local church benefits greatly by having a group of men […]

Why Your Church Should Have Elders (Part 1)

June 20, 2015June 23, 2015 B.J. MaxwellBiblical Meditations, Church Life, Pastoral Ministry, Titus

For many a churchgoer church polity (how a church is governed) is not of great concern. As long as there are plenty of programs, pennies and people then why fuss over a secondary issue. But is polity as secondary as we assume? Church polity does not rise to the level of salvific importance. Whether or not a local church has a plurality of elders does not determine if it’s a […]