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

REVIEWS

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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