Finished reading “The Deliberate Church” by Paul Alexander and Mark Dever a few months ago and haven’t taken time to express my thoughts here on the site.
The book was interesting. I picked it up somewhere and it sat on the shelf for a while until I made the effort to get through it. It took me a while because I occasionally lost interest.
The book attempts to give a clear blueprint that every aspect of local church leadership is well-defined and mandated in Scripture.
This is what intrigued me about the book and caught my interest initially, but I began to see some issues with the authors when they exclaimed that all leadership roles could only be filled by men.
I did finish the book and did learn some great ideas on running board meetings, holding leadership elections, public meetings, etc. I will keep the book on my shelf and draw from it on occasion I’m sure.
hey stevan…pretty sure we got that book from jeremy reese a couple years ago for christmas…i have one too and i think that’s where it came from…
btw…congrats! happy for you guys!