Preach Magazine Issue 3 - Preaching and the Holy Spirit | Page 35

REVIEWS 35 Elders in the Life of the Church Phil A Newton/Matt Schmucker, Kregel (2014) THE AUTHORS OFFER DETAILED EXEGESES OF THESE PASSAGES AND DEMONSTRATE ARGUMENTS THAT PURPORT TO BE GROUNDED IN BIBLICAL TRUTH. THE THIRD, FINAL SECTION OFFERS SOME PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR THOSE CHURCHES CONSIDERING CHANGING THEIR STRUCTURE TO A PLURAL ELDER LEADERSHIP. This examination of the office of elders in the life of the church has come as a timely book to review as I have just been studying the book of James and right at the end of that letter comes the instruction that if any one of you is sick ‘let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil’ (5:14, NIV). This begs the question ‘who are the elders?’ and how many of us have exper