Today’s podcast asks “How do pastors and elders know what they should do?” Much of what we do in church in based on tradition. But the problem with tradition is that tradition just tells us what to do, it does not tell us why we do what we do. Is there a better guide?

Dean Davis suggest that an application of the basic commands of Jesus, carried out the way the first church, the church at Jerusalem carried them out, can be an effective pattern for us today.  He answers the question about knowing what to do in church by saying, “As a church planter and church leader, you will know what you need to do for your church if you remember and strengthen the nine activities of a church described in Acts 2:37-47.”