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3. John MacArthur, Jr., Difi'erent By Design: Discovering God’s Will for Today's Man and Woman (Wheaton: Victor, 1994), p. 114. 4. Francis A. Schaeffer, The Church at the End ofthe 20th Century (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1970), p. 65. 5. Roland Allen, Missionary Methods: St Paul ’s or Ours? (1912; repr. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962), pp. 83,84. 6. Robertson McQuilkin, An Introduction to Biblical Ethics (Wheaton: Tyndale, 1989), p. 191. 7. For recent statistics see John H. Armstrong, Can Fallen Pastors Be Re stored? The Church ’s Response to Sexual Misconduct (Chicago: Moody, 1995), pp. 17-27. 8. Richard N. Ostling, “The Second Reformation,” Time (November 23, 1992), p. 54. 9. Armstrong, Can Fallen Pastors Be Restored? The Church’s Response to Sexual Misconduct, pp. 78,79. 10. Ibid., p. 78. 11. J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership (Chicago: Moody, 1980), p. 20. 12. Philip H. Towner, 1-2 Timothy & Titus, The IVP New Testament Com mentary Series (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1994), p. 228. 13. P. T. Forsyth, The Church and the Sacraments ( 1917; repr. London: Inde pendent, 1955), p. 9. 14. J. Gresham Machen, “Faith and Knowledge,” in Education, Christianity, and the State, ed. John W. Robbins (Jefferson: Trinity Foundation, 1987), p. 8. 15. Jon Zens, “The Major Concepts of Eldership in the New Testament,” Bap tist Reformation Review 7 (Summer, 1978): 29. 1. Kenneth Scott Latourette, History of Christianity, 2 vols., 2nd ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 1: 269. 2. Ibid., 261. 3. Charles Colson, Kingdoms in Conflict (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), p. 274. 4. Ibid., p. 272. 5. John R. W. Stott, The Cross ofChrist (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1986), p. 288. 6. Ibid., pp. 286,287. 7. The modern array of ecclesiastical titles accompanying the names of Christian leaders—reverend, archbishop, cardinal, pope, primate, met ropolitan, canon, curate—is completely missing from the New Testa ment and would have appalled the apostles and early believers. Although both the Greeks and Jews employed a wealth of titles for their political Chapter5

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