num_pages: 50
description: Christ gifts local churches with groups of men called elders to love and lead the flock through teaching prayer oversight and example. This plurality of servants is charged with the weighty task of shepherding a particular body of saints for whom Christ died. But if Scripture lifts up this crucial office why do so many churches today neglect its careful consideration?This book provides a biblical historical and pragmatic defense for pursuing and implementing a plurality of elders in the local church.
language: English
title: By Whose Authority? Elders in Baptist Life
publisher: 9Marks