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Church Elders: How to Shepherd God’s People like Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does effective church leadership look like? In this conversational book, Pastor Jeramie Rinne sets forth an easy-to-understand “job description” for elders drawn from the Bible’s teaching on church leadership. Offering practical guidance for new elders and helping church members better understand and support their spiritual leaders, this succinct volume will encourage elders to embrace...

to change the course of a few men’s lives by calling them into pastoral ministry as a vocation. A quick word about vocabulary: I will be using the terms elder and overseer interchangeably because the New Testament uses them interchangeably.2 The eldership is one job with two titles. Well, actually there are three titles. I will argue in chapter 2 that the term pastor (i.e., “shepherd”) refers to the same church position as elder and overseer. Biblically speaking, elders
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