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
eldership
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
Five key questions to ask of your church polity
Tony Benn famously said there are five essential questions to ask of anybody in positions of social, economic or political power: “What power have you
On prophets, priests and kings as typology for church leadership
There has been a bit of this knocking round lately. Church planters seem to love it. We even had some of it at the FIEC