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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