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If you haven’t read the weblog from 05/07 you should do that before reading today’s entry. The bottom line of that entry was to question the prevailing pattern of dividing up (or away) certain groups in (or from) the church. Let me consider just one example that is close to my heart – […]

It is always beneficial for us when our vision is in line with God’s vision. By using the word vision I am not referring to some supernatural dream from God, but rather to the target and scope of our work. And God’s revealed target for His shepherds is an open letter challenge to […]

Yesterday we took a brief look at some of the implications of who New Testament shepherds are and where they do their work. Today I’d like to quickly consider one distinctive of what biblical leaders do. Shepherds in the church have a distinct kind of work – it is spiritual, eternal work. Leading the church […]

We are back again to consider the distinctive traits of New Testament churches, and today I’d like to consider the fact that local churches always had leaders who were spiritually gifted and qualified, who were identified with individual local churches, and whose charge included the entire flock. In the New Testament leaders are identified as elders (also […]

Sorry. I know that I said yesterday that the next weblog would consider the next distinguishing trait of New Testament churches from Pastor Z’s sermon on Sunday morning, but I’m not ready for that yet. Maybe it will arrive tomorrow. In the meantime, you should all go download and install iTunes and then purchase […]