eldership
Indefinite or limited terms for elders
Do you have ‘life’ or ‘term’ elders? So ran a question I received yesterday. It’s one of those questions that does the rounds mainly because
Why do we find it so hard to find suitable elders?
Given how quickly folks were made elders in the New Testament, why do we so often struggle to appoint them in our own churches? I
Five ways to encourage genuinely co-equal plurality among elders
Most nonconformist churches – particularly of the baptistic persuasion – believe in plural eldership. At least, we say we do. Often, our model may be
A tendency arising with such frequency I suspect a deeper problem
If you’ve been in the church for any length of time, you will know it is a group of sinful people trying to help one