Right away, I discovered that having a plurality of elders is not synonymous with having a team of elders. Others, like me, inherit a plurality almost overnight through a church crisis where my most attractive quality was that I was the only guy left to take the role.
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The manuals by Strauch, Dever, or maybe Bannerman are companions to help guide their way. Not effortless, mind you, but these men have time on their side. Some men plant churches and slide into a plurality of elders through a slow and measured process. What’s the connection between a healthy leadership plurality and joy in ministry? 1.
As the plurality goes, so goes the church.Īnd as I’ve been pondering that proposition, another consequential idea has surfaced as a beautiful implication: Where pluralities are strong, joy in ministry runs deep. When elders share their leadership and life together, the church thrives. I just meant that an eldership is a microcosm of the church. In my recent book, I proposed that the quality of our plurality determines the health of our church. “The quality of our plurality determines the health of our church.”
Thus, when leaders acted, it was together as a ruling body (Acts 13:1–3 15:22–23). It’s a way of referencing the consequential idea that leadership in the New Testament was a team enterprise, not one man’s genius. By plurality, I’m talking about shared leadership. It’s a weighty word that reminds us that ideas have consequences.
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