Sermons About Elder
God's Qualifcations For A Pastor
This sermon looks at the God's Qualifications for a man to be a Pastor.
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Suburbanomianism
Knowledge of what makes for purity and impurity is the final qualification issue.
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A Surprising Mutuality
This week in Peter’s letter he addresses the relationship between the leadership and the rest of the community. Though leaders often have different roles in the church community, the biblical model is that everyone is a sheep of Jesus, and everyone is responsible for Jesus’ disciple-making purposes in the world. The distinction between leaders and the community at large is simply that leaders take the initiative to lead by example as they care for, encourage, and challenge the community to faithful Christian living. As we come to the end of our study in Peter’s letter, our own missional communities will be covenanting around the ways that we will live out our Identity as a Family of Missionary Servants. In order to do this, we need to embrace our fourth Gospel Identity, that of Learner. To be a Learner is to recognize that each of us is a disciple of Jesus called to make disciples of Jesus. We are all - leaders and followers - responsible for the maturity and mission of the church as a whole. Peter addresses both leadership and the community at large with this very emphasis. Come listen as Steve encourages some of us to step up in leadership and the rest of us to submit to leadership.
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How to Serve
Elliot unveils in the word how elders are to emerge as leaders in the church, called by God.
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"Who leads the church?"
(*Due to technical difficulties, the first portion of this message was not recorded). The question we are tackling in this fourth message in the Church series is "Who leads the church?" In an age of distrust and cynicism towards authority, the church's ability to structure itself biblically is of utmost importance.
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Real Biblical Authority
My purpose in preaching this passage is three fold. I want to preach to myself this morning as the pastor of Grace Fellowship Church and a fellow elder of this congregation. I want to drive these points home in my own heart, mind, and life. I want to look at how important this is for me to devote my life to. Secondly, I want the elders of Grace Fellowship Church to see that this is what marks them out as elders in this church. And that they will have these points driven home in their own lives as well. And third I am preaching this to you the congregation because not only do you need to be able to recognize these biblical characteristics in a church leader but you also need to be appropriating these qualities in your own life as well.
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