Most nonconformist churches – particularly of the baptistic persuasion – believe in plural eldership. At least, we say we do. Often, our model may be
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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
EN Article: I don’t like it
I have been asked to write a regular column for Evangelicals Now. The latest article (my original, unedited version) is below. It can’t have escaped
Monthly afternoon service: Church Polity
Yesterday, we had our monthly afternoon service. We purposefully try to make it a different format to the morning service. Instead of systematically preaching through