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Who Rules the Church?: Examining Congregational Leadership and Church Government is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does the New Testament present an implicit system of church government? What group in the church is vested with sovereignty under God? Does the New Testament authorize election of a board of elders or deacons to govern a church? Gerald Cowen offers answers to these critical questions concerning how the New Testament church is to be governed. Who Rules the Church? contends that the New Testament...

apostles and elders” (Acts 15:1–2 NKJV). They were received by the church, including “the apostles and elders” (15:4 NKJV), and then the leaders, the “apostles and elders came together to consider this matter” (15:6). When a decision was reached, the matter was brought before the whole church with the apostles and elders and approved (15:22). A letter was then composed to be sent out to other churches concerning this matter. It was sent from the “apostles, the elders, and the brethren” (15:23) to
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