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New Testament Eldership

New Testament Eldership. Part 1. This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you — if anyone is above reproach…. (Titus 1:5-6 ). The problem. Loss of NT teaching and practice of Eldership.

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New Testament Eldership

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  1. New Testament Eldership Part 1

  2. This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you — if anyone is above reproach…. (Titus 1:5-6)

  3. The problem Loss of NT teaching and practice of Eldership

  4. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped of every good work. (2 Tim. 3:16-17)

  5. … do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15

  6. Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, “The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me…” Exodus 3:16

  7. Examples of Eldership And this they did, sending it in charge of Barnabas and Saul to the elders. Acts 11:30

  8. Examples of Eldership … the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue. Acts 15:2

  9. Examples of Eldership When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed. Acts 14:23

  10. Examples of Eldership Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ … 1 Peter 5:1

  11. Instructions About Eldership Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord… James 5:14

  12. Instructions About Eldership Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses. 1 Tim 5:19

  13. Instructions About Eldership The sins of some men are quite evident, going before them to judgment; for others, their sins follow after. Likewise also, deeds that are good are quite evident, and those which are otherwise cannot be concealed. 1 Tim 5:24-25

  14. Instructions About Eldership It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.1 Tim 3:1

  15. Instructions About Eldership But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction. 1 Thess 5:12

  16. Instruction To Eldership Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord … James 5:14

  17. Instruction To Eldership Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, shepherd the flock of God among you … 1 Peter 5:1-2

  18. Instruction To Eldership Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. Acts 20:28

  19. Deficient Without Eldership For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order [to set right] what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you (Titus 1:5)

  20. Deficient Without Eldership When they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. Acts 14:23

  21. Church as a Close-knit Family In case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. 1 Tim 3:15

  22. Church as a Humble-Servant Community Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves ... Phil 1:3

  23. Church as a Humble-Servant Community …be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

  24. Church Under Christ’s Headship He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. Col 1:18

  25. Promotes Protection and Sanctification of Spiritual Leaders

  26. New Testament Eldership Part 1 www.BiblicalEldership.com

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