Embracing Shared Ministry: Power and Status in the Early Church and Why It Matters Today
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Healthy church leadership based on the model of shared ministry in the early church
Social historian and pastor Joe Hellerman addresses issues of power and authority in the church—in the New Testament and in the church today—in a fresh, culturally nuanced way. The local church, Hellerman maintains, should be led and taught by a community of leaders who relate to one another first as brothers and sisters in Christ, and who function only secondarily—and only within the parameters of that primary relational context— as vision-casting, decision-making leaders for the broader church family. Unique among contemporary treatments of servant leadership, Hellerman interprets the biblical materials against the background of ancient Roman cultural values, in order to demonstrate a social context for ministry that will provide healthy checks and balances on the use of pastoral power and authority in our congregations.
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- Addresses issues of power and authority in the church.
- Interprets the biblical materials against the background of ancient Roman cultural values.
- Provides healthy checks and balances on the use of pastoral authority.
- Title: Embracing Shared Ministry: Power and Status in the Early Church and Why It Matters Today
- Author: Joseph H. Hellerman
- Publisher: Kregel
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 313
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christian leadership; Power (Christian theology); Authority › Religious aspects--Christianity; Christian leadership › History; Power (Christian theology) › History; Authority › Religious aspects--Christianity--History; Church history › Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Resource ID: LLS:MBRCNGSHRDMTTDY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-07-28T01:18:12Z