Jesus is our model when we look to how new testament teachers are to wait on teaching. He taught as one having authority, and not as a scribe. His motivation was as far as possible from bitter envy and strife masquerading as wisdom. He had compassion on those who came to hear [...]

When we allow the church to sink to a compromised place of clergy-client commerce, there is no power to exhort or admonish or rebuke or reprove – all of which are called for in the church of the New Testament. If we opt for a more casual democratic arrangement, then just as in any [...]