Eric Laverentz
Eric Laverentz is Lead Pastor of First Presbyterian Church (ECO), Edmond, Oklahoma, Coordinator of the Elder Leadership Institute, and a Flourishing Life Leaders' Coach.
Four essays from three issues, 2006 to 2019
2019
One essay
Recovering the Office of Elder – The Shepherd Model, Part IIIWinter 2019
The third and final part of Laverentz's series on the elder as shepherd. Drawing on the original 1788 PCUSA Constitution, he sketches what eldering as soul-care…
2018
Two essays
Rediscovering the Office of Elder. The Shepherd Model, Part IISummer 2018
Part two of the elder series opens with an 1898 Kansas City session quietly addressing one of their elders' moral failure with the kind of pastoral…
Rediscovering the Office of Elder-The Shepherd Model, Part ISummer 2018
What does it mean to be an elder? Laverentz argues that for most of Presbyterian history, an elder was a shepherd of souls, deeply enmeshed in…
2006
One essay
Heresy, History and HopeIssue 5, 2006
Is the church’s trouble a lapse in biblical authority, or something older? Eric Laverentz calls it “hyper-humanism,” traces its family line through Arianism, Pelagianism and Donatism,…