Timothy Paul Jones

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Timothy Paul Jones

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Leadership: Why I Had to Rewrite My Book on Leadership

29th October 2018

An earlier version of this post was published on The Gospel Coalition website.

“‘Touch not mine anointed.’ That’s what this book says!” the preacher stormed, flapping his Bible above his head. “There are people in this church right now who are trying to touch God’s anointed—but I won’t let them stretch their hands against me!”

I was fourteen years old, and common sense was in short supply for me at the time. Still, something about the chapel sermon that day in this tiny fundamentalist school didn’t seem right.

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: church leadership, Deuteronomy, judge, king, kingdom, kingship, leader, munus triplex, priest, prophet, threefold office

Leadership: What’s the Point of Priesthood in the Church Today?

22nd October 2018

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

Over the past century, several Reformed scholars and church leaders have presented the threefold office of Christ—the munus triplex of prophet, priest, and king—as a typology for church leadership today. According to this way of thinking, priesthood is connected with caregiving and prophecy is primarily about teaching. Continue reading.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: John Frame, king, leadership, Mark Driscoll, munus triplex, priest, priesthood, prophecy, prophet, typology, Vern Poythress

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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