Description: Few books on church leadership, eldership, and the diaconate address their biblical foundations for a contemporary audience. Waters provides pastors, elders, and others with a greater understanding of how to govern the church.
Brief description: Guy Prentiss Waters (BA, University of Pennsylvania; MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary; PhD, Duke University) is Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. At Duke, he studied under Richard B. Hays and E. P. Sanders, two leading expositors of the New Perspectives on Paul. Dr. Waters is the author of Justification and the New Perspective on Paul: A Review and Response. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in America. He is also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Institute of Biblical Research.
Review Quotes: "Ecclesiology has for too long been the poor relation in evangelical and even Reformed circles. Recent years have witnessed a welcome reaction against such neglect but much of this has not been well-grounded either biblically or historically. Thus, it is a pleasure to commend Guy Waters' book as a sound, biblical, accessible guide to the nature of the church. Written by a churchman for the church, it can be read with profit by office-bearers, Sunday school teachers and any believer who wants a deeper grasp of what it means to be a member of Christ's church on earth."--Carl R. Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary