Thread by @AndyRowell

@DrAaronNew Three points:
- We should be slow to take justice into our own hands as David was in 1 Samuel 24. Romans 12:19 "vengeance is mine …. says the Lord".
- Paige Patterson was untrustworthy as a shepherd and so was removed from his position.

@DrAaronNew If people want to read more, Paige Patterson writes the argument in the four views book "Who Runs the Church? 4 Views on Church Government" (Zondervan, 2004) for one pastor being in charge of a local church. The other three authors push back.

@DrAaronNew Paige Patterson is incorrect in how he describes an "overseer" "meaning literally 'to see above' … a term pointing … to his vision casting." This is a word fallacy, bad Greek, and anachronistic.
No, it is one who watches over, supervises, visits, looks upon, examines.

@DrAaronNew I think Gordon Fee is correct in his suggestion that "elders" are the overarching category. It has two subcategories: overseers and deacons.

@DrAaronNew If we want exegetically to find dynamic individual leaders in the New Testament, it is not elders or overseers, but the apostles. The elders were caretakers, managers, maintainers. The apostles were church planting and evangelizing and bringing change.

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/664850773876936704

@DrAaronNew Background on Paige Patterson:

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1003419784594296833

@DrAaronNew More history of Paige Patterson:

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1316426963318435843

@DrAaronNew And more history of Paige Patterson:

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1358882653643046914