Two Models of Stewarding Church Communities

September 26th, 2025 | 7 min read

I have lately found myself wondering if perhaps some of my past writing on the affairs of my home communion, the Presbyterian Church in America, has relied on using Tim Keller's proposed categories for our church in ways that Tim himself did not necessarily embrace.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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