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6. Detail how bishops were selected, and then provide the nature of the bishop’s authority and function to give oversight, including the bishop’s expanded authority as “pastor of pastors,” as well as one given the responsibility to oversee all the churches within his area of responsibility. 7. Lay out how all traditions have some version of the function of a bishop even though they may not have any nomenclature (language, categories) of the bishop. All churches require ongoing oversight and supervision. 8. Reproduce the three biblical images of the role of the bishop: as supervisor, as apostle, and as spiritual director. 9. Show how the bishop as supervisor functions as a super- intendent, coordinating and organizing the outreach, personnel, and resources of churches under his/her care to make maximum impact for the Church’s edification and the Kingdom’s advancement. 10. Specify the ways in which a bishop functions as an apostle, charged with the ongoing care of new churches and their leaders, doing all they can to ensure the protection, edification and development of the them. 11. Give evidence how the bishop functions as a spiritual director, providing challenge and encouragement to budding ministries and churches as they mature in Christ. 12. Sketch out carefully the importance of pastoral and church association, both as it relates regionally through the locale church, and through affinity and shared identity. 13. Argue for the role of the bishop-level oversight being given to urban churches in association with each other, and how that ministry might flesh itself out among urban congregations. 14. Review the blessing, benefit, and reward of faithful obedience to the call of the Christian leader as bishop, with the prospect of exercising authority in the Kingdom of God.

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