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The New Elder's Handbook: A Biblical Guide to Developing Faithful Leaders
The New Elder's Handbook: A Biblical Guide to Developing Faithful Leaders
The New Elder's Handbook: A Biblical Guide to Developing Faithful Leaders
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Pastors and church leaders are in need of mature, godly elders to ensure church health, but the training of elders is often entirely missing or badly neglected. What if there were a process to proactively call and train elders?

The New Elder's Handbook is designed to equip elders with the knowledge, character, and skills the office calls for. It takes church leaders through the development of a vision for ministry, recruitment of elders to carry out that vision, and specific, biblical training, providing a way to be intentional about developing elders.
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Release dateNov 20, 2018
ISBN9781493415892
The New Elder's Handbook: A Biblical Guide to Developing Faithful Leaders
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Greg R. Scharf

Greg R. Scharf is professor emeritus of homiletics and pastoral theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is author of Prepared to Preach, Relational Preaching, and Let the Earth Hear His Voice. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and is a past president of the Evangelical Homiletics Society.

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