Our Todays, Insurmountable Inadequate Church & Spiritual Leadership:

 Our Todays, Insurmountable Inadequate Church & Spiritual Leadership:

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Today's out-of-God biblical order Pastors, Bishops Founders, and spiritual leadership, There is a distinct pattern for ministry leadership in the New Testament, although the pattern seems to be assumed rather than specifically prescribed.

The New Testament mentions many official positions in the Church: Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers, Elders, Prophetess, Deacons and Overseers, and also many other serving gifts.

The word Elder is sometimes translated as “Presbyter”, Pastor which may be translated as “Shepherd”, and Overseer sometimes translated as “Bishop”) are used interchangeably in the New Testament.

Even though these terms often mean different things among various Leaders today, the New Testament seems to point to many offices, which were occupied by Jesus Christ's biblical Churches. The following verses illustrate how the terms overlap and are used interchangeably:

In Acts 20:17–35, Apostle Paul is speaking to leaders from the Ephesian Church. They are called “Elders” in verse 17. Then in verse 28, he says, “Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you Overseers, to care for the Church of God, ( And not just about you and your needs or wants ).”

Here the Elders are called “Overseers” and their Pastoral/Shepherding duties are implied as the Church is called the “flock, sheep, Christ body, His bride, His spiritual family, God's sons, and daughters.”

In Titus 1:5–9, Elder Paul gives the qualifications of Elders (verse 5) and says these qualifications are necessary because “an overseer must be above reproach” (verse 7). In 1 Timothy 3:1–7, Apostle Paul gives the qualifications for overseers, which are essentially the same as the qualifications for elders in Titus.

In 1 Peter 5:1–4, Apostle Peter tells the elders to “shepherd the flock of God.” From these passages, we see that the office of elder/pastor-shepherd/overseer-bishop is one. Those who occupy this office are to care for, help, support, lead, teach, and watch over the congregation like a shepherd.

Furthermore, we see that every church family has elders (plural). Elders are supposed to rule and teach (1 Timothy 5:17). The biblical pattern is that a group of men (and elders are always men) is responsible for the spiritual and physical leadership and ministry of the saints.

There is no mention of a Church body with a single elder/pastor who is in charge of everything, nor is there any mention of congregational rule (although the congregation plays a part with the many other ministering gifts).

While the elders are responsible for teaching and leading the flock, there is still much that needs to be done on the physical level. The office of the deacon or deaconess focuses on the physical needs of the Church.

If you fellowship church leaders are just praying for you, and are not trying to help or support you in times of need, they are biblical wrong, Period.

In Acts 6, the assembly in Jerusalem was meeting the physical needs of many believers in the Church by distributing food. Some of the widows came to the Apostles because they were not getting what they needed. The Apostles responded, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables” (Acts 6:2).

To relieve the Apostles, the Church family was told “pick out from among them seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this responsibility. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word” (Acts 6:3–4).

Although the men chosen here are not called deacons, most Bible scholars see them as the first deacons, or at least prototypical of the position. The word deacon simply means “servant.” Deacons are appointed church officials who minister to the more physical needs of the church, relieving the elders to attend to more spiritual ministry. Deacons are to be spiritually fit, and the qualifications of deacons are given in 1 Timothy 3:8–13.

In summary, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Bishops, Teachers lead, deacons, and many other ministry gifts serve.

These categories are not mutually exclusive. Elders serve their people by leading, teaching, praying, counseling, etc.; and deacons may lead others in service. Deacons might be the leaders of service teams within the church. Still, there is a basic distinction between those responsible for the spiritual leadership of the church and those responsible for service.

So, where does the congregation fit into the pattern of church leadership? In Acts 6, it was the congregation who chose the deacons, so many churches today will have the congregation nominate and ratify the deacons of the church.

And, of course, the members of the congregation are to be the primary ministers and evangelists reaching out to a lost world. The idea that the congregation hires professional ministers to do the work of the church is unbiblical and out of order.

There may be local variations of church leadership because this is only a basic pattern; every detail is not prescribed in Scripture. The basic pattern found in the New Testament is that every church should have a plurality of godly elders who are responsible for leading and teaching the church and godly deacons who are responsible for facilitating the more physical aspects of church ministry.

A plurality of elders protects the church from the weaknesses and possible excesses a single elder might bring. As long as this basic pattern is followed, the church is operating according to the biblical pattern. Having a sole pastor who controls the church is not the biblical pattern, and neither is an arrangement in which the pastor works for the deacons who run the church.

The congregation is to follow the leading of God's team leaders who follow Christ. In their wisdom, the elders may request congregational approval of major decisions, but the congregation should not be the final authority. The buck stops with the Lord God Jesus Christ and His Apostles, Prophets Elders/Pastors/Overseers, who answer to Him.

If your Church fellowship does not have God's other ministry leadership gifts it is out of biblical order. Amen.

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