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Ordinary Elders, Part 2: Governing as Men Who Teach

Messages by Desiring God

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The Cost of Teaching

We want the kind of man who will hardly stop teaching, even if a gun is put to his head. We don't have a good word that corresponds in English, maybe French as one, I don't know. In English, we have the word didactic, built on the Greek didike, which means teaching. The point is that New Testament leaders, the pastor elders, are teachers.

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