Biblical Eldership Church Leadership

Bible-Based Leadership Structure

Each time that man has believed himself to be more intelligent than God, that he has painstakingly developed a religious system “better adapted to the psychology of man,” more conformable to the spirit of our times, instead of simply following the neotestamentary model, his attempt has been short-lived because of failure due to some unforeseen difficulty. All heresies and deviations in the church spring from the abandonment of the Scripture and of the model for the church which they present.17 In short, as Alfred Kuen concludes, “the churches established by the apostles remain the valid models for churches of all times and places.”'8