New Testament churches are to be led by a team of biblically-qualified spiritual shepherds. The Bible calls these shepherds pastors, overseers, and elders at various points. (See, for example, Titus 1:5-9; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Acts 20:28.) At Life Church we seek to order ourselves according to this biblical pattern, and thus we are led by a group of shepherds - a team that includes staff pastors as well as our lay elders. These elders have been found to demonstrate the biblical qualifications outlined for elders in passages such as 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9.

As we ordained three new elders in our gathering this Sunday, we remembered the high cost Christ Jesus paid to obtain this Bride by His blood from Acts 20:17-38.

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

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