Loading…

Perspectives on Church Government: Five Views of Church Polity is unavailable, but you can change that!

How does God intend his people to be governed and guided? How a church organizes itself can be its greatest strength and greatest weakness. Organization and leadership are crucial to the work of the kingdom of God, but with polity often comes politics. The decision as to who offers earthly governance to the body of Christ cannot be made in a cultural or historical vacuum. The Bible must be...

assignment is to defend the single-elder view. I do believe, as I have stated, that it is an acceptable and biblically defensible position. I will make that defense in the latter part of this chapter. First, the evidence for Congregationalism will be examined. From there I will analyze the concept of elder. Following that, I will quickly survey relevant historical issues germane to Baptists and in particular the Southern Baptist Convention (the denomination in which I serve). I will then move to
Page 27
Buy this book at Logos.com