Vision of the Body & Our Place In It 8: Spiritual Leadership
April 22, 2018 Speaker: Steve Cowden Series: Vision Sunday
Topic: Sermons Scripture: Ephesians 4:11
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Leaders, shepherd teachers, are gifts to the church for the benefit of the body. The New Testament presents elders as the authority along with the apostles oftentimes.
We see in the NT passages:
-Plurality
-Collaboration
-Spiritual focus
-Instruction
-Admonition
-Directive/Direction. Guiding
No evidence of these in NT:
-Hierarchy
-Institutions
-Organizations
-Professionalism
-Consumerism
-Facilitation