by church leaders for the sake of helping churches captured me. Seeing how a careful, biblical view of the church drives pastoral leadership, ministry, evangelism, and preaching has clarified my thinking and honed my approach to ministry. We (Kendell and Chris) see the importance of the disputed questions but in a healthy theological and pastoral perspective. Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, church discipline, the relationship of Israel and the church, denominations, ecumenism2—their importance, in our