In order to display the glory of Christ, the Church appoints and follows servant leaders who are whole

heartedly committed to accomplishing the mission of Christ.

And those servant leaders are called elders.

Welcome to Radical with David Platt, a weekly sermon podcast with pastor, teacher, and author David Platt.

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Radical in iTunes or by visiting our website radical. net. In Acts chapter 20 we see a helpful guide

for elders or pastors as servant leaders these men ought to lead under the authority of Christ, care for

the body of Christ, teach the word of Christ, model the character of Christ.

The churches should appoint and follow such men. Here's David to teach about

elders in the church from Acts chapter 20. of your

Bibles and I hope you do I want to invite you to open with me to the book of

acts chapter 20.

Where over in the new testament feel free to use your table of contents if you need to, and let me encourage you to pull out the notes that are in your celebration guide as well.

We're going to dive right in. We got a lot of ground to cover today, and so I want us to dive right into the biblical truth that you see at the top of those notes, and this will kind of guide our time together in God's word today. But the biblical truth, that's going to kind of serve as the foundation that's going to permeate everything we talk about today is this.

A biblical model of church

to display the glory of Christ.

A biblical model of church leadership is necessary for the church to display the glory of Christ.

Now I know what some of you are thinking this morning and

you're thinking great. They're talking about church leadership. It's gonna be

real exciting, not gonna have a lot to do with us, honey, we can't pick the wrong Sunday to come visit the church.

You should have never read that newspaper article, all right?

Or maybe you remember the church.

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