Loading…

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...

Elder The term elder is by far the most common term used in the New Testament to denote an officer in a local church. The term presbuteros is used sixty-six times in the New Testament. The term can be used of age to refer to one who is a senior in rank, such as in Acts 2:17. Here it is used in contrast to the young men: “Your old men shall dream dreams” (NKJV). First Timothy 5:1 also has this meaning: “Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father.” This use of the term is carried over from
Page 9
Buy this book at Logos.com