Lead His Church
Overview
Lead His Church addresses the skills or competencies of an elder as a leader in the congregation and community. This volume addresses the internal growth of a leader, enabling the elder to become an effective teacher. It analyzes two critical leadership skills for elders: decision making and strategic planning. Lead His Church explains the much-needed art of mentoring and discipling, and highlights the significance of the elder’s ministry of shepherding and providing godly counsel. The volume closes by addressing an oft-neglected dimension of an elder’s work: the necessity of church discipline.
In the Logos Bible Software edition, all Scripture passages are tagged to the original language texts or your preferred English translation. You can perform powerful searches by topic and find what other authors, scholars, and theologians have to say, making this volume ideal for discovering the elder’s roles.
- Addresses elders’ key roles
- Illustrates the characteristics an elder must have
- Emphasizes the importance of eldership
- Look Within: Leading through Learning
- Look Around: Leading through Analytical Thinking and Decision Making
- Look Ahead: Leading through Strategic Planning
- Taking under Wing: Leading by Mentoring
- Taking Alongside: Leading by Shepherding
- Taking to Task: Leading through Church Discipline
Top Highlights
“Effective decision making requires that we follow biblical principles.” (Page 43)
“However, before an elder can be a leader, he must first become a learner. For one to lead through teaching, he must develop a teachable spirit, one that is able to learn.” (Page 16)
“However, in terms of what an elder has to be able to do, his prime responsibility is to ‘teach’ (1 Tim 3:2; Titus 1:9” (Page 16)
“George Barna has been known to say that our culture changes every three to five years” (Page 39)
“Effective decision making requires that we remain committed to our purpose” (Page 43)
These writers offer us sound teaching concerning the training of elders and other church leaders. Their writing provides us with a valuable course of study for this endeavor. They present some fine, basic resource material for the church that desires to break away from old traditions and return to the older traditional leadership of nearly two thousand years ago. We must remember that a return to New Testament leadership will propel our congregations into New Testament evangelism, discipleship, and service. . . . Nearly every main point is backed up with quote after quote from the Bible. No one can accuse them of serving up their own ideas and opinions.
—From the foreword by Ben Merold, senior minister, Harvester Christian Church, St. Charles, MO
- Title: Lead His Church
- Authors: Jim Estep, David Roadcup, and Gary Johnson
- Publisher: College Press
- Publication Date: 2010
- Pages: 119
Jim Estep is a professor of Christian education at Lincoln Christian University Seminary in Lincoln, Illinois.
David Roadcup is the director of the Center for Church Advancement at Cincinnati Christian University.
Gary Johnson is the senior minister of Indian Creek Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.