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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...

The Traditional View Finally, there are many Bible scholars both past and present who believe that Scripture indicates that a pastor must be called of God for that ministry. James M. George, writing in Rediscovering Pastoral Ministry, which is edited by John MacArthur, concludes that God calls selected men to serve and these must have assurance that God has called them.9 The leader is no different from other members, except that God chose him and gifted him to do the work.10 Speaking about the pastor,
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