Thursday, March 01, 2007

The closest thing we've got to a Bishop

Is Revd Richard Coekin the closest thing we've got to a NT kind of Bishop since he is an ordained Elder, the pastor of a congregation, with some oversight of other congregations, in a context of mission and church planting and with the aim of identifying, recuiting, training and deploying other elders?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think he qualifies as an elder as do all vicars and pastors -oversight of the one church will do fine!

But I think under Restoration Theology more excitingly you can declare him an apostle along with Terry Virgo and co