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Are Teaching Elders More Important Than Ruling Elders?
Well, Ruling Elders is that what you think? Or Teaching Elders is that what you believe? It is time for the Ruling Elder to take his place as a shepherd of Christ's Church not only in position/office but in reality. Here is a great post dealing with the on-going problem of the Federal Vision in the PCA and the role of the Ruling Elder in Presbyterianism.
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In this post, though, you presuppose that the RE/TE differentiation is "presbyterian," when most of those who are presbyterian, historically, would not see that as a valid differentiation, seeing Minister and Elder as the differentiation. They would of course see that the church was best served by having the elders deal with this issue and other theological issues.
AH! Good eyes Josh. I was 'meeting the culture where it is'! I hold to a basic 2 office view: elders and deacons. But in a sense that is the whole point in this post and Wes White's post. There are many lay elders (those whose focus of ministry is not the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments) who hold to practically in a three office view and a big distinction between TE's and RE's. But Wes White's post addresses this whole issue, I believe.
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