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Elders and Leaders: God’s Plan for Leading the Church: A Biblical, Historical and Cultural Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Gene Getz was used to having all the answers. So when his seminary students started asking questions he wasn’t prepared to answer, he abandoned the syllabus and led his students on a soul-searching journey through the Scriptures. Now after thirty years of hands-on experience and continued biblical research, the former professor turned church planter delivers what he’s convinced is God’s plan for...

GUIDELINE 1: To formulate biblical principles, we must look at the totality of Scripture on a particular subject Our elders’ team did an in-depth study of church leadership as detailed in the Scriptures. As we studied together, we looked particularly at both functions (activities) as well as directives (exhortations, instructions, etc.). These functions appear most frequently in the book of Acts. This is logical since Luke recorded the acts (or activities) of church leaders during the time the church
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