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If we were to take a poll of modern Christians and ask them what they think are some of the key issues facing the church today, what would be on that list? Certainly it would include things like, what is at the heart of the ministry of the church? How should women participate in the church? How important is the preaching ministry of the church, and what should the church’s preaching look like?...

indicating that ‘overseer’ is another word for ‘elder’ (cf. also Acts 20:17, 28). In 1 Timothy 5, he refers to elders as those who rule over God’s people, with some specifically having the task of teaching and preaching (5:17). In Acts 20:28–29, Paul explicitly calls on the Ephesian elders to ‘be shepherds of the church’, and to guard the flock against the savage wolves who would come into their midst. Sadly, not only have his predictions come true by the time he is writing to Timothy, but it would
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