FLAME - Leadership lyrics

Jesus established the Church and
How the Church
Should be ran if we're gonna
Succeed then we need to follow His
Plan so many gather in
Buildings but that don't make a church
So many children have fallen out
Are crawling and hurt we need
Healthy leadership so we can
Have healthy churches thank God for elders
And deacons who seek to worship
Let's take the deacon whose role
Is to meet physical needs
He is not responsible to teach or even
Oversee deacons manage financial matters
While serving the elders so they
Can focus on preaching, teaching
Studying and praying but they
Don't just focus on only
Just serving the elders they also help us
(Acts 6) to see what I'm saying
They also maintain unity
In the Body for sure many men like this will
Make a Body mature so
As we focus on honoring
The covenant I'm urging you
Towards congregational church government

They say FLAME don't go soft
On this talk about
The offices established that the
Bible says there's one
Two we've got deacons we've got elders
We've got elders we've got deacons
Any other school of
Thought just ain't true now what
The elders do is oversee
Spiritually over the Church
Laboring in prayer
And in the Word this is the
Elder's work plus they guard us so no
False teaching comes seeping in plus they
Guard our souls so nobody goes sink in sin
They're living the gospel out that others
May imitate privately their counsel route
It's solidly
Bible based plus they preach the word
Teach the word that the Church may grow
Till He comes back, sky crack
Then the Church will go we're
Called to submit to them
(Hebrews 13: 17) God gave them authority
Although we are a team
We've got authority too
(Matthew 18: 15) yes the tension exists
Yes we submit to the King

You came out the world, now you get
Placed in the Church given authority
Don't fall back you've gotta work you're
Part of the congregation and you've got
A role to play you're part of
The priesthood of all believers you vote
To say who the elders are, what
People join doctrinal truth, discipline too
I'll keep going you deal with
Disputes, you've got the final say
On all these issues see
This was issued on-on that day
That you were converted
Regenerated for sure you
Exercise this authority to
Keep the Body pure you are accountabiity for
The elders in fact but in
Humility we keep the elders intact and
When I say elders mean bishops, pastors
Overseers those terms are
Synonymous honestly I
Know this is kinda shocking but
This doctrine they seem to forget that's
The teaching of biblical church leadership