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The Biblical Nature of Church Leadership
Charismatic Leadership
We are heavily
indebted in this section to Alexander Strauch's work in Biblical Eldership:
an Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership (Littleton, CO: Lewis
and Roth, 1995).
- Church leadership is not charismatic in the sense of supernatural
phenomena like speaking in tongues. Rather, it is charismatic in the sense
that it is a charisma, a grace gift from God. It is a spiritual gift
that God gives to His church.
- Paul understands all spiritual gifts as having the common goal
of encouraging each other and building up the church (Rom 1:11-12; 1Cor 12:4-7).
- This means that wherever the church is working by the power
of the Spirit for the upbuilding of the body, there the Spirit's gifts are
present.
- Leadership is therefore a God-given grace gift intended to multiply
the joy and health of the local church.
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