Welcome to the seventy-third episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today's episode, Dave Jenkins and James Forbis talk about The Need for Qualified Biblical Eldership.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

* Pastor as the Ceo verses the Pastor as Shepherd.

* Singleness and eldership.

* The calling of a Pastor and elder.

* Being slow to call pastors and elders to understand what they believe about doctrine.

* The need for hands-on ministry training for future pastors and elders.

* How to pursue a calling to pastoral ministry.

* Growing in Godly Character by Grace as a Ministry Leader.

* How the Gospel calls us to be elders and sustains us as elders.

* Why we should seek to be who we are by God's grace and faithful to the call of God and bloom where He has placed us.

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