Chapter Three: Contemporary Church Government We have discussed what Scripture tells us about early church government, yet it’s clear that few churches are governed the same way today. In most situations we have “evolved”— or perhaps...
The Character of Elders The writers of the New Testament have much to say about church elders, but their emphasis is not on what these church leaders should do, but on what sort of people they should be. In fact, writes Roy Zuck, “contrary to the notion that the...
Chapter Two: Biblical Church Government True story: I was teaching at a writer’s conference and I met a woman who’d heard that I was working on a book about the church. She told me she had been on staff at a large church, and she published a book for...
Personal note: I wrote these posts months ago, and I’m not as hurt as I was–I’m more a thinker than a feeler, anyway. Now I’m more focused on figuring out what to do about these kinds of situations and what the proper biblical response...
You may recall that a few months ago I was working on a book called “Wounded by the Church,” thinking that I would use it for my Th.D. dissertation. Well, I handed in my proposal, only to find that it wasn’t nearly “academic” enough . ....
A few years ago when I began my theological studies, the doctrine of God’s sovereignty became real to me in a way it never had before. Oh, I had always know that God was sovereign, if by that you mean he’s more powerful than anyone or anything, but then I...
