Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Great Blog Post By Jeff Vanderstelt

I wish that most followers of Jesus in the West would read this following blog post. Here is an excerpt:
Recently, I have engaged in a conversation with my Acts 29 brothers regarding the challenges of raising up indigenous leaders to start new churches. Many struggle to find the men, the resources (many reference the high costs to plant) and the means to identify, equip and release for the starting of new Gospel works...

It seems to me that Paul didn't have much problem getting new works started and having sufficient leadership to put in place before moving on to the next place (granted it was hard work). I continue to hear a lot of talk about the lack of leaders and the difficulty of raising up leadership. So, I wonder: Do we have a non-biblical description of elder/leaders for the church? Is it possible that our description of who can lead a church is connected to our present model of Church (not the Biblical model) and therefore only "super-apostles" can lead?

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