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Don't fire your church members : the case for congregationalism / Jonathan Leeman. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Broadman & Holman Academic, (c)2016Description: viii, 200 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781433686238
  • 1433686236
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [E]
LOC classification:
  • BX7231.3.L446.D668 2016
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Who's in charge of what around here?
A covenantal job assigment
The keys to office
How Jesus gives a job to the whole church
How the Holy Spirit establishes overseers
Working with other congregations
Getting to work
Quick answers to critiques of elder-led congregationalism
Sample members' meeting agenda.
Summary: Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished. Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work. In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus’ authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission. AMAZON
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Who's in charge of what around here?

A covenantal job assigment

The keys to office

How Jesus gives a job to the whole church

How the Holy Spirit establishes overseers

Working with other congregations

Getting to work

Quick answers to critiques of elder-led congregationalism

Sample members' meeting agenda.

Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished.

Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work.

In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus’ authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission. AMAZON

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