Who Should Run the Church?
Daneil Wallace from bible.org argues, A Case for the Plurality of Elders...
his introductory points follow, you'll have to click the link to read the developed argument...
his introductory points follow, you'll have to click the link to read the developed argument...
(1) Presbyters (also translated "elders") and bishops (also translated "overseers") were apparently the same individuals. That is to say, the two terms were synonymous.
(2) The leadership of the church from the earliest period always had elders, even if it did not have deacons. Young churches only had elders; more mature churches had both elders and deacons.
(3) Elder and pastor are not the same thing in the NT.
(4) For elders, the one qualification that is other than moral is the ability to teach.(5) The consistent pattern in the NT is that every church had several elders.
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