What We’re Looking For in An Elder Part 5 — Someone Who’s “Elderly”
From What We’re Looking For in An Elder–Someone Who’s “Elderly” by Greg Gilbert
IV. We Are Looking for Men Who Are Already Recognized as “Elderly”
- We want men who are known, because they attend.
- We want men who are known as a person of love.
- We want men who are known as a person of wisdom and knowledge and confidence
- Discipling others, serving faithfully.
- Putting the church’s interests above his own.
- All this makes you a center of gravity in the church. Not a loyal opposition center-of-gravity, but a person whom the people of this church are already gravitating to as a pastoral figure.
- We want to say, “How could we not recognize this person as an elder?”
November 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Publicans have their own reward, it is their public approval they seek.
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