Dr. Gene A. Getz

Slide 1:Dr. Gene A. Getz

Slide 2:Supracultural Principle

Spiritual leaders should manage and shepherd the church just as fathers are to manage and care for their families.

Slide 3:(A Definition)

Slide 4:Guidelines

1. To formulate biblical principles that are supracultural, we must look at the totality of Scripture on a particular subject.

Slide 5:Guidelines

2. As we study a particular subject in Scripture, we must follow God�s unfolding revelation.

Slide 6:Guidelines

3. In order to formulate biblical principles that are supracultural, we must be sure to interpret Scripture accurately.

Slide 7:1 Timothy 5:17

The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

The Local Church(God�s Household)

The Local Church(God�s Household) Disciples

The Local Church(God�s Household) Disciples Brothers

The Local Church(God�s Household) Disciples Brothers Saints

A local church is a functional expression of the universal church in a particular geographical location at a particular time in history The Local Church(God�s Household) The Local Church(God�s Household) Acts 14:21-23 They preached the good news in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. �

The Local Church(God�s Household) Acts 14:21-23 �Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

The Local Church(God�s Household) The Family(Church in Miniature)

Cornelius The Local Church(God�s Household) The Family(Church in Miniature)

Cornelius Philemon The Local Church(God�s Household) The Family(Church in Miniature)

Cornelius Philemon Lydia The Local Church(God�s Household) The Family(Church in Miniature)

Cornelius Philemon Lydia Philippian Jailer The Local Church(God�s Household) The Family(Church in Miniature)

The Local Church(God�s Household) The Family(Church in Miniature) Marriage Ephesians 5:31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

The Local Church(God�s Household) The Family(Church in Miniature) Marriage Individual Believers

The Local Church(God�s Household) Individual Believers Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others (Romans 12:4-5).

The Local Church(God�s Household) Individual Believers Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God (Colossians 3:16).

The Local Church(God�s Household) Individual Believers From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work (Ephesians 4:16).

The Local Church(God�s Household) Phoebe Individual Believers Romans 16:1-2 Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea.

Husbands Individual Believers

Husbands Individual Believers Ephesians 5:22-23 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

Husbands Individual Believers Primary Servant-leaders Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Fathers Husbands Individual Believers

Fathers Husbands Individual Believers Primary Servant-leaders Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Elders Fathers Husbands Individual Believers Primary Servant-leaders

Elders Primary Servant-leaders 1 Timothy 3:4-5 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God�s church?)

Husbands & Wives Individual Believers Servant-leaders

Aquila & Priscilla Marriage Romans 16:3-4 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus. They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Fathers & Mothers 1 Thessalonians 2:7, 11-12 Husbands & Wives Individual Believers Servant-leaders

Fathers & Mothers 1 Thessalonians 2:7, 11-12 Servant-leaders But we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children � For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

Multiple Fathers & Mothers Fathers & Mothers Husbands & Wives Individual Believers Servant-leaders

Slide 38:Supracultural Principle

Spiritual leaders should manage and shepherd the church just as fathers are to manage and care for their families.

Slide 39:Observations

1. Clarifies the servant-leader role for husbands, fathers and elders as they serve together with their spouses.

Slide 43:Observations

Provides a model for interpreting correctly all scriptural directives regarding leadership without superimposing our own cultural forms on biblical functions.

Slide 44:Observations

6. Provides a model for making decisions regarding leadership roles in ministries that are much larger than the local church.