139 April

139 April 2019 Book Reviews congregation in admonishing, exhorting, and encouraging one another in mutual oversight and Christian discipline (Col. 3:16), the keys of the kingdom are being used.” “The elders have special leadership…but the congregation is also fully engaged” (136). In the fourth part of the book, Van Dam considers the work of the elders “as preservers and nur- turers of life in the covenant com- munity” (137). First, he treats the elders as those “ruling and having authority”...