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The related verb form, episkopeo': “Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God” (1 Peter 522a; italics added). 18. Nigel Turner, Christian Words (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1981), p. viii.

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1. See Alexander Strauch, The New Testament Deacon: The Church ’s Min ister of Mercy (Littleton: Lewis and Roth, 1992), pp. 44-54. 2. Bruce Stabbert, The Team Concept: Paul’s Church Leadership Patterns or Ours? (Tacoma: Hegg, 1982), pp. 25,26. 3. C. S. Lewis, “How to Get Along with Difficult People,” Eternity 16 (Au gust, 1965): 14. 4. Robert Greenleaf, Servant Leadership (New York: Paulist, 1977), p. 63. 5. Erroll Hulse, “The Authority of Elders,” Reformation Today 44 (July August, 1978): 5. 6. Stabbert, The Team Concept, p. 51. 7. Earl D. Radmacher, The Question of Elders (Portland: Western Baptist, 1977), p. 7. 8. Ibid., p. 11. 9. Phyllis Thompson, D. E. Hoste “A Prince with God” (London: China Inland Mission, 1947), p. 119. 10. Neil Summerton, A Noble Task: Eldership and Ministry in the Local Church, 2nd ed. (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994), p. 85. 1. John Piper, “A Vision of Biblical Complementarity,” in Recovering Bib lical Manhood and Womanhood (Wheaton: Crossway, 1991), p. 32. 2. Cullen Murphy, “Women and the Bible,” The Atlantic Monthly, (August, 1993): 41-43. 3. See Wayne Grudem’s excellent article, “The Meaning of Kephale‘ (‘Head’): A Response to Recent Studies,” in Recovering Biblical Man hood and Womanhood, pp. 425-468. 4. George W. Knight III, “Husbands and Wives as Analogues of Christ and the Church,” in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, p. 168. 5. Ibid., p. 174. 6. Biblical feminists are notorious for equating the doctrine of male headship with the oppression of women. Certainly men misuse this doctrine to excuse their abusive behavior toward their wives, but that is not the bib lical model, nor is it the pattern of most Christian marriages. Godly, Christian headship is marked by love—the kind of self-sacrificing love that Christ displayed on behalf of His bride. Ephesians 5225 states: “Hus Chapter 3

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