Leadership and Elders in the N.T. Church

—Following the N.T. Model

  • Andrew Fountain – May 8, 2016

 
 
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Leadership:

  1. What it means to follow a New Testament model
  2. Overview of leadership in the N.T.
  3. Elders: role, requirements & appointment

What it means to follow a N.T. model

  1. We can do what we like unless the N.T. forbids it
  2. Don’t do it unless it’s in the N.T.
  3. Follow the N.T. pattern when we are given one

Leadership:

  1. What it means to follow a New Testament model
  2. Overview of leadership in the N.T.
  3. Elders: role, requirements & appointment

Romans 12:4–8

  1. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
  2. so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
  3. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
  4. if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;
  5. the one who encourages, in his encouraging; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Acts 6:1–5

  1. In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
  2. So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.
  3. Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them
  4. and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.”

Acts 20:28–31

  1. Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  2. I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
  3. Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
  4. Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

Leadership:

  1. What it means to follow a New Testament model
  2. Overview of leadership in the N.T.
  3. Elders: role, requirements & appointment

Acts 20:28–31

  1. Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers [elders], to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  2. I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
  3. Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
  4. Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

1 Timothy 3:1-7

Titus 5–9