9 Marks of a Healthy Church Expositional Preaching. Biblical Theology The Gospel A Biblical understanding of Conversion A Biblical understanding of Evangelism A Biblical understanding of Church Membership Biblical Church Discipline

9 Marks of a Healthy Church Biblical Church Leadership! #8

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What does the Bible say about church leadership? The Congregational Context of Church Leadership

The Congregational Context of Church Leadership Church leadership always take place in a congregational context. Who has the final say in the church? the assembly of individual believers who are the church. Acts 6:1-7 Galatians 1:6-9 Hebrews 13:17

What does the Bible say about church leadership? The Congregational Context of Church Leadership The Biblical Qualifications for Church Leadership

The Biblical Qualifications for Church Leadership 1 Timothy & Titus Shepherds Other-centred Exemplary marriages and family Temperate in all things, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not violent, quarrelsome or greedy, not a recent convert and well respected by those outside the church

What does the Bible say about church leadership? The Congregational Context of Church Leadership The Biblical Qualifications for Church Leadership The Christlikeness of Church Leadership

The Christlikeness of Church Leadership 4 aspects of Christ’s leadership 1. The Boss 2. Out Front 3. Supply 4. Serve

Biblical Church Leadership Leadership is not just a matter of church politics Authority and leadership are not matters of indifference to us as Christians, they are matters of great concern, because they are part of the image of God that we are to reflect in our lives.

Biblical Church Leadership 2 Samuel 23:3-4 David says, “When one rules over people with righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth”.

Biblical Church Leadership The family is the training ground for loving authority When we exercise authority in a good and proper way (through the law, around the family table, in our jobs, in our hobbies, in our homes and especially in the church) we help to display God’s image to His creation.

Biblical Church Leadership Our conduct in the church concerning leadership is to be done in such a way that the Gospel is not brought into disrepute but is seen as the glorious light of hope and truth in the world. There is a world that needs to see people made in the image of God living out that image through its leadership.