Timothy Paul Jones

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Leadership: Prophets, Priests, and Kings in the Church Today?

8th October 2018

This post on prophets, priests, and kings as leadership typology is excerpted from my book The God Who Goes Before You. You can purchase the book here.

Does my personality as a leader land me in the category of prophet, priest, or king? And, if it does, what does that mean for my leadership in the church? I first encountered these questions several years ago while assessing potential church planters. Over the years that have followed, I’ve become convinced that these questions are grounded in a fundamentally flawed understanding of leadership and of the biblical categories of prophet, priest, and king.

“I’m not really preparing to do pastoral care,” one potential church planter informed me when I asked him about his approach to counseling, “I’m more a king than a priest, you know. So someone else will need to do the counseling and visiting when I’m a pastor.” Continue reading.

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Culture: The Failure of White Evangelicals in the Civil Rights Movement

16th January 2017

A few months ago, Justin Taylor interviewed four evangelical historians about the role of Southern white evangelicals in the American Civil Rights Movement. It is a lengthy and painful read, but it provides a much-needed perspective on white evangelicals’ persistent failure to challenge systemic racism. Here are a few excerpts:

Matt Hall: The unfortunate reality isn’t that evangelical theology in the South was muted when it came to racial justice, it’s that it was actively used to undermine justice and to perpetuate a demonic system. Continue reading.

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  • Church History: The Racist Heresy in Southern Baptist History Church History: The Racist Heresy in Southern Baptist History
  • Church History: When Did Churches Stop Baptizing by Immersion? Church History: When Did Churches Stop Baptizing by Immersion?
  • Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part One) Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part One)

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