This article explains how the Roman Catholic Church came to have the papacy as its system of church government.

How does Luke represent Christian leadership in the early church? Giles finds it inappropriate to regard the ecclesiology of Luke as "early catholic." He emphasizes that those would lead in the Christian community are not rulers but servants.

How would you describe the nature of the pastor's authority? This article shows that authority in the church is a delegated authority, limited by the Word of God, Christ-like in its demeanour, honouring to the freedoms of the Christian, and concerned with obedience to God and not the pastor.

Convictional Christian leadership is defined by one's faith. And so if one's beliefs about God are not true, everything else will be warped by that false knowledge—and this is a huge problem in our culture when it then comes to leadership. A proper understanding of the sovereignty of God will help one see that Christian leadership is an act of stewardship.

Using an example from the world of music, this author illustrates the kind of commitment and humility that is required in leaders. These qualities are required in pastors as leaders of the church, and fit with Ephesians 4:15-16.

God rules over us and leads us through this life by his Word and Spirit. Out of grace, He empowers individuals with his Word and Spirit to serve as officebearers in the church.

Spiritual leaders know where God wants people to be and take initiative to get them there, relying on God's power and using God's methods.

Insecurity kills leadership in the church. How do you know if you are an insecure leader? This article discusses two signs: you are slow to compliment or encourage others, and quick to deflect blame and criticism.

When faced with challenges in ministry, pastors have a tendency to allow the kingdom of the self encroach upon them. This article describes this problem as one of shifting treasure, and explains how this happens in terms of our identity, maturity, reputation, essentiality, and confidence.

Forgiveness is essential to bringing unity in the ministry. There are three things forgiveness does to resolve conflicts and bring unity.

This article encourages pastors to love know and love those who serve in leadership positions with them in the church. It illustrates the point with Colossians 4:7-14, where Paul provides an excellent example of this issue.

How should you deal with negative church members? Be humble, shepherd, and be biblical.

How do you develop leaders in a church plant? This article discusses three essential things to do for the development of leaders.

Is the celebrity culture influencing how the church thinks about church leadership? This article argues that the church has been influenced, and this emerges in how the church chooses its leaders more according to giftedness than godliness. The author explains why this is a problem, and points to a better way to find leaders.

Office-bearers are required to keep confidentiality. This article discusses three reasons for the necessity to keep confidentiality and three situations that may tempt office-bearers to break such confidentiality.

Pride is an enemy to pastoral ministry and leadership. From the life of Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:12-19, 2 Chronicles 32:24-31, and Isaiah 39:1-8 this article shows the dangers of pride, its workings, and how to crucify it.

This article identifies three ways of thinking wrongly about leadership in the church: not reading 1 Timothy 3 correctly, unhealthy thinking about eldership, and seeing deacons as junior varsity elders.

Biblical leadership is leading in dependence on God's grace. This article looks at nine types of leaders in the Bible to show how this is important for leadership.

What is spiritual abuse? It is a sinful use of spiritual authority by Christian leaders to promote, protect, or enrich a person or a Christian institution regardless of the spiritual damage done to innocent parties and the cause of Christ. The article unpacks this definition.

How does the gospel shape Christian leadership? This article explains eight aspects of gospel-centred leadership.

This article warns against certain pitfalls that face especially young Christian leaders in their leadership roles.

Convictional Christian leadership is defined by one's faith. And so if one's beliefs about God are not true, everything else will be warped by that false knowledge—and this is a huge problem in our culture when it then comes to leadership. A proper understanding of God will help one see that Christian leadership is an act of stewardship. This article explains aspects of the leader's stewardship.

Christian leadership is related to who God is. Here are eight questions to consider for how leadership should reveal the character of God.

What does Christian leadership entail? This article explains several principles, including how leadership calls for conviction, embraces the biblical worldview, is full of passion, thinking, and teaching.

Professionalism is a threat to Christian ministry. It tends to produce consumerism and harms the life of the church. The article explains what can be done about it.

Are you a leader? What does leadership look like? Here are twenty tips for answering this question.

How can you improve your leadership capabilities? You need to avoid these seven pitfalls of leadership that can derail you, including pride, passiveness, isolation, loneliness, and boredom.

Church meetings are a part of the life of the church. How can you have profitable and edifying church council meetings? This article offers seventeen tips.

Delegation requires a clear definition of the task. Done in this way, leadership delegation will of great service to the church. This article discusses ten steps needed for equipping ministry leaders so that they can fulfill their tasks delegated to them.

You may know a pastor who moved out of the ministry because of sexual sin. Can it happen to you? This article gives seven steps to avoid sexual sin.

Is there a relationship between economics and church leadership? If you see economics as stewardship, then there are some lessons to take from economics. An economically wise church leadership requires that out of all the ministry opportunities before you, allocate your limited resources to the most effective ministry opportunities.

This article considers three aspects to finding evangelists that can function in the local church: develop a culture of evangelism, develop and teach a model for evangelism, and deploy people into evangelistic ministry.

This article discusses various virtues for a spiritual leader in the church to embody.

Does 1 Timothy 3:11 support the office of deaconess? This article argues that 1 Timothy 3:11 refers to women serving in diaconal ministry but who are not deaconesses.

One threat facing the church today is that of egalitarianism or democracy, which has an effect on the church office. We need to promote the right view of office and authority.

In the midst of Israel's idolatry, Samuel took a godly stance as a prophet, priest, and judge. He is an outstanding role model for Christians today.

This article describes the negative impact celebrity culture can have on the ministry of the church.

This article looks at the crucial connection between the preservation of orthodoxy and the training of leaders from one generation to the next. The author calls the present generation to invest a legacy of orthodoxy in the coming generation.

How should a pastor handle the news of a fallen pastor? The news of a fallen minister should grieve but also humble you. This article shares six things related to handling the news of a fallen pastor.

What should church leadership be like? This article examines concepts portrayed by two terms, servant leadership and leading servant.

What should church leadership look like? This article first discusses New Testament terms for church leaders, such as apostles, elders, and deacons, and then explains that elders are called to rule God's church, and should be men, not women.

The future of church planting is partly rooted in developing leaders. This article argues that one ought to consider eleven aspects in order to develop such a core team of leaders.

The author suggests that churches should have an evangelist as part of their leadership.

This article offers some key principles for answering the question whether women may be ordained to Christian ministry.

This article looks at the life of Timothy, a church leader who was also a helper in Paul's ministry. The author discusses leadership and discipleship by looking at Timothy's example. Looking specifically at Hebrews 13, the author discusses how we can be biblical leaders and followers.

This article reflects mainly on Luke 10:20, which contains a command for the seventy disciples to rejoice in their ministry, for in Christ it was a victorious ministry. This same joy is to be there today, and this article provides much encouragement to that end.

This article contains an interview with Dr. George Knight, who discusses questions surrounding the role of women in church leadership.

This essay presents a short theology of ministry to open up discussion and seek new avenues of thinking. The author considers the nature, scope, qualifications for, and form of ministry. The relevance of all this for women in ministry is considered.

In this essay, the author wants to demonstrate that the crucial role of hermeneutics is not to be denied when passages are considered in reflecting on women in office. However, the author argues that the current discussion appears to be vexed frequently by an assumed but perhaps faulty exegesis of the relevant biblical texts. He uses as an illustration of this point 1 Timothy 2:8-15.

This article is about self-love in leadership, sexual sins in leadership, narcissism, and leadership problems.

This article reflects on the understanding of a call to be a theologian. The author uses the book of Jeremiah as a resource for this reflection on a theological vocation and the role of friendship in such a calling.

This article is about the study of church leadership in Hebrews 13:17-19. Studies on leadership in Hebrews are not abundant. The author wants to highlight some of the important characteristics of church leadership that he demonstrates from the book of Hebrews.

This article draws applications from John 21:16 for what servant leadership is supposed to look like. The qualifications for leadership are a love for God, a model of service, and a crucifying of the self.