1. 9 Marks of a Healthy Church
Expositional Preaching.
Biblical Theology
The Gospel
A Biblical understanding of Conversion
A Biblical understanding of Evangelism
A Biblical understanding of Church Membership
Biblical Church Discipline

2. 9 Marks of a Healthy Church
Biblical Church Leadership! #8

3. Animal Farm

4. What does the Bible say about church leadership?
The Congregational Context of Church Leadership

5. The Congregational Context of Church Leadership
Church leadership always take place in a congregational context.
Who has the final say in the church?
the assembly of individual believers who are the church.
Acts 6:1-7
Galatians 1:6-9
Hebrews 13:17

6. What does the Bible say about church leadership?
The Congregational Context of Church Leadership
The Biblical Qualifications for Church Leadership

7. The Biblical Qualifications for Church Leadership
1 Timothy & Titus
Shepherds
Other-centred
Exemplary marriages and family
Temperate in all things, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not violent, quarrelsome or greedy, not a recent convert and well respected by those outside the church

8. What does the Bible say about church leadership?
The Congregational Context of Church Leadership
The Biblical Qualifications for Church Leadership
The Christlikeness of Church Leadership

9. The Christlikeness of Church Leadership
4 aspects of Christ’s leadership
1. The Boss
2. Out Front
3. Supply
4. Serve

10. Biblical Church Leadership
Leadership is not just a matter of church politics
Authority and leadership are not matters of indifference to us as Christians, they are matters of great concern, because they are part of the image of God that we are to reflect in our lives.

11. Biblical Church Leadership
2 Samuel 23:3-4
David says, “When one rules over people with righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth”.

12. Biblical Church Leadership
The family is the training ground for loving authority
When we exercise authority in a good and proper way (through the law, around the family table, in our jobs, in our hobbies, in our homes and especially in the church) we help to display God’s image to His creation.

13. Biblical Church Leadership
Our conduct in the church concerning leadership is to be done in such a way that the Gospel is not brought into disrepute but is seen as the glorious light of hope and truth in the world.
There is a world that needs to see people made in the image of God living out that image through its leadership.