Overseers – Covenant Confessions

Eldership in the Local Church Pt. 3: The Qualifications for Eldership

Post author:Austin McCormick
Post published:July 22, 2020
Post category:Church Systematic Theology

The Qualifications for Eldership Not everyone in the church is gifted for the spiritual office of elder. This office has qualifications that restrict who can and who cannot serve the church in this role. Although not everyone is gifted and/or…

Eldership in the Local Church Pt. 2: Interchangeable Titles for Elder

Post author:Austin McCormick
Post published:July 16, 2020
Post category:Church Systematic Theology

The New Testament uses multiple terms interchangeably to describe this office: elder, overseer (bishop in the King James Version), and shepherd. The Particular Baptist Nehemiah Coxe helps establish these interchangeable titles: The officers that we are now treating of, which…