[PDF] Healthy Plurality Durable Church How To Build And Maintain A Healthy Plurality Of Elders eBook

Author : Dave Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781732055209

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Have you ever wondered what separates a healthy church from an unhealthy church when they have the same doctrine (and even methods) on paper? The long-term health and durability of a church simply cannot exceed the health of her elders who lead, teach, shepherd, and pray the church forward. Therefore, building and maintaining a healthy plurality of elders is the key to durability. Yet a healthy plurality is a delicate thing working through hardship and the difficulties of relationship while pursuing the noble task of eldership. If you wish to grow deeper in your theology of eldership to lead with a healthy, biblical vision of plurality, then this is your "How-To" guide. DAVE HARVEY serves as the Executive Director of Sojourn Network and a Teaching Pastor at Summit Church in Naples, Florida. Dave chairs the board for the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF) and has traveled nationally and internationally doing conferences where he teaches Christians, equips pastors, and trains church planters. He is the author of When Sinners Say I Do, Am I Called, Rescuing Ambition, and Letting Go: Rugged Love for Wayward Souls. Married for 36 years, Dave and Kimm have four kids and two grandkids.

Author : J. R. Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498243185

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Elders Lead a Healthy Family explores the biblical paradigm for shared leadership: elders as the spiritual "big brothers" and shepherds to the family of God. This book is a fresh biblical alternative to the standard fare of pragmatic church leadership. Delivered in a winsome and irenic style, the book addresses the key concerns of our day, including pastoral burnout, women as elders, women and the pastoral gift, power in leadership, abuse of power in ministry, ministerial pay, and fostering missional-leadership structures. The answer to so many of the problems facing the church is not more coaching or better education. The answer requires our churches to change the very structures that foster abuse, isolation, and burnout. If we hope to save our pastors, then we need our pastors to abandon the "pastor-as-CEO" model of leadership. If we want to reach the lost, we need a systemic change in the way we plant, grow, and maintain our churches. Instead of putting a solo leader at the top of "Church Incorporated," we need to build teams of elders, doing ministry together, as they lead the family of God.

Author : Dave Harvey
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433571579

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Building and Sustaining a Thriving Leadership Culture Essential to every healthy church is a biblical model of leadership. In the New Testament, church leadership is built around a team of elders working together, each bringing his own unique skills and gifts to the cause of shepherding the flock God entrusted to them. However, in many churches today the principle of plurality in leadership is often misunderstood, mistakenly applied, or completely ignored. Dave Harvey encourages church leaders to prioritize plurality for the surprising ways that it helps churches to flourish. This book not only builds a compelling case for churches to adopt and maintain biblical elder pluralities guided by solid leadership but also supplies practical tools to help elders work together for transformation. Download the free study guide.

Author : Joshua Alan Remy
Publisher :
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Christian leadership
ISBN :

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A desire among evangelical churches in denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention to return to biblical forms of leadership have led a number of churches to examine what seems to many to be the biblical model of a plurality of elders. Many new Southern Baptist church plants are starting with this type of polity, but some already established churches desire to make a transition in their church government as well. Some of these churches fail at this transition and experience discord. Some succeed and see great fruit. This case study examines one traditional Southern Baptist church’s experience in transitioning from a single elder congregational model to a plurality of elders. The research examines the time before, during, and after the change in polity by surveying members, interviewing specific groups of the congregation, analyzing documents from during the transition, and through the observation of the researcher, who was a guiding participant in the change. Chapter 1 introduces the research problem. Chapter 2 examines the foundation set by the precedent literature in the arguments for and against a plurality of elders along with a literature survey of organizational change focused on the church. Chapter 3 outlines the case study research methodology. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss the findings of the research. The goal of this case study is to provide others with an illustration of best practices and challenges that a church may experience in a transition to plurality of elders and hopefully ease the path of change.

Author : Jeramie Rinne
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433540908

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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 : Jonathan Samuel Bowman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Church management
ISBN :

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The New Testament (NT) regularly describes a polity of pastoral plurality in the first-century, local churches. By extension, then, this prescriptive pattern transcends to every NT local assembly. Regrettably, many churches experience a leadership vacuum due to a lack of pastoral accountability and shared responsibility. Thus, the project director sought to develop a strategy conducive to adopting an amendment to the bylaws that requires a plurality of elders in the church polity at Peace Haven Baptist Church in Yadkinville, North Carolina. Through this strategy, the project director emphasized the biblical model of plural eldership. Although Peace Haven Baptist Church has a storied history of solid leadership, in recent years the leadership exhibited lesser answerability and teamwork. The project director examined several ecclesiological and pastoral periscopes including, but not limited to, Acts 14:23; 20:28; Phil 1:1; 1 Tim 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9; and 1 Pet 5:1-4. These biblical passages comprise the scriptural pattern of plural eldership as it relates to the local church. The project director also explored various commentaries and monographs that shaped his perspective on church polity that every local church should maintain a plurality of pastors in its spiritual oversight. This form of church polity aligns directly with the scriptural description from the apostles. Based on this research, the project director collaborated with three expert panel members and several church leaders to develop four apologetic-based sermons on the subject of plural eldership in the local church. Peace Haven Baptist Church traditionally held to a senior pastor model, but this polity proved somewhat challenging under the previous pastor. Additionally, such an approach contradicted the modus operandi and instruction of Paul's ministry outlined in the book of Acts and in several of his letters. Churches today would do well to follow the elder-leadership model described in the NT: (1) observing Luke's description of the plurality of elders in the local church at Ephesus (Acts 20); (2) recognizing Paul's appointment of multiple elders in local churches (Acts 14); and (3) Paul's instruction to Titus to implement elders in the churches of Crete (Titus 1:5). In the process of this doctoral program, the project director experienced a much-welcomed education on biblical pastoral leadership along with a stronger dependence on the Holy Spirit and Scripture to fulfil God's will for this local church. Although the project director found the program work arduous, the amendment adoption to the bylaws made all the challenges worthwhile in that it positioned the church leadership and membership to grow and mature spiritually at a higher capacity.

Author : Phil A. Newton
Publisher : Kregel Ministry
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825442728

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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 : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433559625

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Many churches are switching to the multisite or multiservice models to manage crowded sanctuaries due to growing attendance. This solution seems sensible in the short term, but too often churches adopt this model without taking into consideration what the Bible says about it. Illuminating the importance of physical togetherness as a way to protect the gospel, this book argues that maintaining a single assembly best embodies the unity the church possesses in Jesus Christ. Jonathan Leeman considers a series of biblical, theological, and pastoral arguments that ask us to stop and examine intuitions or assumptions about what a church is. He reorients our minds to a biblical definition of church, offering examples of churches that have thrived with a single service at a single site and compelling alternatives for those looking to solve the complications that come with a growing church.