Church Elders

Author : Jeramie Rinne
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433540905

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Church Elders by Jeramie Rinne Pdf

Effective leadership is important. Nowhere is this more true than in the church. Jeramie Rinne offers readers a concise overview of the Bible's teaching on spiritual leadership, setting forth an easy-to-understand "job description" for elders that is focused on enabling pastors and church leaders to effectively shepherd their congregations. Giving practical guidance to new elders and helping church members better understand and support their spiritual leaders, this conversational book emphasizes purposeful ministry rather than project management. It will also bolster leaders' confidence by encouraging them to embrace their pastoral calling with grace, wisdom, and a clarity of vision.

Author : Timothy J. Mech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0758627475

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Pastors and Elders by Timothy J. Mech Pdf

Who is in charge? What are elders responsible for? How can we build trust between the pastor and elders? How can we hold one another accountable? If these questions sound familiar, it's because every church struggles at times with knowing how to foster a healthy relationship between pastors and elders. The relationship between leaders in the congregation is an important factor in the well-being of the church. A twenty-one-year veteran of the pastoral office, author Timothy Mech defines the roles and responsibilities of each position, outlines where authority should lie, and provides recommendations of how to build trust and accountability within the congregation. This training manual includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter, along with helpful resources, such as sample meeting agendas, reports, templates for congregational letters, and much more. Together with the companion DVD, Pastors and Elders provides the Lutheran congregation with strategies for leaders to work effectively as a team for the sake of the Lord and His Church. Book jacket.

Author : Phil A. Newton
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Baptists
ISBN : 0825494788

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Elders in Congregational Life (Newton) by Phil A. Newton Pdf

(Foreword by Mark Dever) A biblically functioning church requires intentional devotion to the New Testament model of the church. In this practical book, Phil Newton gives a definitive and biblical study of elder-based leadership.

Author : Phil A. Newton,Matt Schmucker
Publisher : Kregel Ministry
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0825442729

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Elders in the Life of the Church by Phil A. Newton,Matt Schmucker Pdf

Newton and Schmucker convincingly demonstrate that a return to the New Testament pattern of elder plurality best serves the shepherding needs of the local church. The authors suggest a workable process for improving a local church's leadership structure and making the transition to elder plurality. Stories of church leaders provide a narrative of how faithful elder leadership has strengthened their ministries in a variety of settings. Every local church can benefit from this useful resource for building a healthy leadership structure.

Author : Gene A. Getz
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575675277

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Elders and Leaders by Gene A. Getz Pdf

Strong leadership in the church is exactly what God had in mind. However, very few people, Gene Getz believes, understand the biblical pattern for church leadership. He has written Elders and Leaders to unravel the mystery and alleviate the confusion surrounding this critical topic. In the first part of the book, Getz lays the historical and biblical groundwork for the position of elder. In the second part, he shares how he has applied or has seen these principles applied over the years.

Author : Matt Perman
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310494232

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What's Best Next by Matt Perman Pdf

By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do. There are a lot of myths about productivity--what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information overload, it may feel harder than ever to understand the meaning of work or to have a sense of vocation or calling. So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity? Matt Perman has spent his career helping people learn how to do work in a gospel-centered and effective way. What's Best Next explains his approach to unlocking productivity and fulfillment in work by showing how faith relates to work, even in our everyday grind. What's Best Next is packed with biblical and theological insight and practical counsel that you can put into practice today, such as: How to create a mission statement for your life that's actually practicable. How to delegate to people in a way that really empowers them. How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you. How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day. How to have peace of mind without needing to have everything under control. How generosity is actually the key to unlocking productivity. This expanded edition includes: a new chapter on productivity in a fallen world a new appendix on being more productive with work that requires creative thinking. Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done--the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. You can learn how to do work that matters and how to do it well.

Author : J.R. Briggs,Bob Hyatt
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830841189

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Eldership and the Mission of God by J.R. Briggs,Bob Hyatt Pdf

The biblical model for church leadership is found not only in pastors but also in teams of elders who oversee, shepherd, teach, equip and guide the community into God's mission. In this practical guide, J.R. Briggs and Bob Hyatt unpack the role, character and posture of a mission-oriented elder.

Author : Lawrence R Eyres
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0875522580

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Elders of the Church by Lawrence R Eyres Pdf

A thorough, practical study of biblical church government. Discusses the ruling elder, the teaching elder, biblical principles of each, and more.

Author : John F. MacArthur
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802480179

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The Master's Plan for the Church by John F. MacArthur Pdf

It is absolutely essential that a church perceive itself as an institution for the glory of God, and to do that, claims John MacArthur, the local church must adhere unfalteringly to biblical leadership principles. Christ never intended church leadership to be earned by seniority, purchased with money, or inherited through family ties. He never compared church leaders to governing monarchs, but rather to humble shepherds; not to slick celebrities, but to laboring servants. Drawing from some of the best-received material on church leadership, this updated edition guides the church with crucial, effective lessons in leadership. This book is valuable not only for pastors and elders, but for anyone else who wants the church to be what God intended it to be.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Church management
ISBN : 9780870835971

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The Elders' Management of the Church by Witness Lee Pdf

Author : Benjamin L. Merkle
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825433511

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Why Elders? by Benjamin L. Merkle Pdf

Key biblical and practical issues for the church considering elders

Author : Irina Paert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Russia
ISBN : IND:30000127721359

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Spiritual Elders by Irina Paert Pdf

Spiritual elders (startsy) are a quintessential part of Russian Orthodox spirituality, yet scholars have given relatively little focus to them. Elders whose authority came not from their position within institutional church but from their reputation for personal holiness were mediating agents between official and popular Orthodoxy. Acting as teachers, spiritual directors, counselors, and prophets, elders represented a particular form of ministry within the Church. The informal source of elders authority meant that their position was often in conflict with the bureaucratized Synod.In her highly readable book, Paert looks at both Imperial and Soviet Russia and examines the social and cultural contexts in which startsy operated, demonstrating how eldership was appropriated by both elites and lower classes. A significant contribution to the debate about the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in modernizing Russian society, Paert s study shows that elders represented both the weaknesses and the strengths of Russian Orthodoxy s response to the challenges of modernity. Spiritual Elders promises to stimulate further discussion on the problems of spiritual authority, popular belief, the impact of a religious identity on a national one, and the interactions between church and society in the modern world. Historians of Russia and scholars of Eastern Orthodoxy, as well as general readers of religious history, will find this book of great interest.

Author : Matt Smethurst
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433571657

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Deacons by Matt Smethurst Pdf

How Can Deacons Mobilize Service in the Church? Deacons are essential to a church's health—yet confusion abounds regarding their biblical job description. What's their God-given role in a local congregation and how do they relate to the church's overall mission? In this short book, Matt Smethurst makes the case that deacons are model servants called to meet tangible needs, organize and mobilize acts of service, preserve the unity of the flock, and support the ministry of the elders. Clearing away common misconceptions, Smethurst offers practical guidance for deploying deacons and helping churches to flourish.

Author : Benjamin L. Merkle
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825493324

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40 Questions about Elders and Deacons by Benjamin L. Merkle Pdf

Arranged in a Q & A format, this volume tackles the major questions that pastors, church leaders, and students ask about congregational church government, a topic of much interest in the church today. It provides readers with a clear analysis of key biblical passages, succinct answers (4-8 pages each), and discussion questions. The unique format of the book allows the reader to pick and choose what issues are most pertinent to their interests and needs.

Author : Frederick Knight
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512825671

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Black Elders by Frederick Knight Pdf

Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her renowned autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, if her grandmother, a free black woman named Molly Horniblow, had not enabled Jacobs’ escape from slavery? In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal role of elders in the history of African American community formation through Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources, including slave narratives, plantation records, letters, diaries, meeting minutes, and state and federal archives, Knight also examines how blacks and whites, men and women, the young and the old developed competing ideas about age and aging, differences that shaped social relations in coastal West and West Central Africa, the Atlantic and domestic slave trades, colonial and antebellum Southern slave societies, and emancipation in the North and South. Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans, the day-to-day struggles they waged around their experiences of aging, and how they drew upon these resources to define the meaning of family, community, and freedom.