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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...

There are some who maintain that the New Testament does not favor any particular view of church organization. The well-known New Testament scholar G. E. Ladd says in his work A Theology of the New Testament: “It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.”4 Some might agree with Ladd that since the New Testament does not give us an exact blueprint
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