Membership
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?
If you’re trying to implement healthy church structures without losing the heart of shepherding, this book gives you a steady hand to guide the process.
If a church doesn’t have any elders, then it doesn’t have any overseers.
Listening to experienced brothers from outside our time and context helps us to focus on the universal and unchanging duties of all of God’s ministers.
When we gather for worship, our job is not to be overly concerned with ourselves or critical of others, but to “turn [our] eyes upon Jesus.”
To help Christians follow a conscience bound by Scripture is not pedantic, but wise.
We should preach to our people the whole time we are preaching, and not only after we have walked through the text or proven our case of what the main point is.
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?