Biblical Eldership: An Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership

Strauch does an amazing work here in helping the church to understand the roles of Elder, Deacon, and Deaconness. By taking a thorough tour through the New Testament, he is able to paint a complete picture of these church offices.

LibraryThing member dvalliere

This book was quite good and just not all that great either. At times, Strauch overstates his case, in my opinion, but overall does a good job of exegesis.

On the positive side, this book was very thorough. It gave a good biblical examination of the relevant biblical texts on the topic.

On the

negative side, this book was very, very, very thorough, even to the point of redundancy.

I think the ideal audience for this book would be those in currently in or preparing for leadership in a church who are not sure or familiar with biblical teaching on elder leadership. For those already familiar with and committed to an elder led polity, this book was a bit cumbersome and dry.

It's one of the more highly recommended books on the topic, as far as I've been able to tell, but it was not ideal for our situation. I'm hopeful of finding a more accessible treatment for use not only personally but with lay elders.

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LibraryThing member nisly

Excellent look and exposition of church leadership in the New Testament... and principles and concepts for churches today.

LibraryThing member BrannonSG

Excellent, Biblical description of the office of pastor/elder/overseer. If you want to understand the original Biblical meaning of these terms, hear a full presentation on the qualifications and responsibilities of church overseers, this is the book for you, The book also addresses false

implementations of bishops and other offices of rank inside the church where appropriate.

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