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Jon Zens, “The Major Concepts of Eldership in the New Testament,” Bap tist Reformation Review 7 (Summer, 1978): 28. J.B. Lightfoot, Saint Paul’s Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon (London: MacMillan, 1892), p. 29,31. Bruce Stabbert, The Team Concept: Paul's Church Leadership Patterns or Ours? (Tacoma: Hegg, 1982), p. 43. Gerhard Kittel, “aggelos,” in Theological Dictionary of the New Testa ment, eds. G. Kittel, and G. Friedrich, trans. and ed. G. W. Bromiley, 10 vols. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964-76), 1 (1964): 86,87. (Hereafter cited as Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.) Robert S. Rayburn, “Ministers, Elders, and Deacons,” in Order in the Oflices: Essays Defining the Roles ofChurch Oflicers, ed. Mark R. Brown (Duncansville: Classic Presbyterian Government Resources, 1993), pp. 223-227. Robert Banks, Paul 's Idea ofCommunity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980), p. 53. Ibid., pp. 53,54. Marjorie Warkentin, Ordination (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982), p. 100. Dave and Vera Mace, What’s Happening to Clergy Marriages? (Nash ville: Abingdon, 1980), pp. 57,58. John E. Johnson, “The Old Testament Offices as Paradigm for Pastoral Identity,” Bibliotheca Sacra 152 (April-June, 1995): 194. Ibid., 195. Ibid., 199. Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament, p. 534. Alfred Kuen, 1 Will Build My Church, trans. Ruby Linbald (Chicago: Moody, 1971), p. 17. Ibid., p. 253. 2. RF. Bruce, The Book ofthe Acts, The New International Commentary on the New Testament, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), p. 3. Some scholars challenge the popular idea that Christians borrowed the eldership concept from the synagogue. See A.E. Harvey, “Elders,” The Journal of Theological Studies 25 (October, 1974): 319; R. Alastair Campbell, The Elders: Seniority Within Earliest Christianity (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994), p. 119. Bruce, The Book of the Acts, p. 287. William Kelly, An Exposition of the Acts of the Apostles, 3rd ed. (1890; repr. Denver: Wilson Foundation, 1952), p. 209. The phrase in Acts 15:23, “the apostles and the brethren who are elders,” is a bit unusual in Greek. It literally reads, ”The apostles and the elders 1.

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