You’ve been nominated, elected, and installed as a ruling elder at your church. You show up for your first session meeting and…

God calls and equips us to serve as spiritual leaders of congregations but what that really means and how that is lived out in real time — and with real people — can be mysterious and sometimes challenging.

In our podcast series “On Being an Elder” we invite both ruling and teaching elders to share their experience of working together as a session to lead the church. Real conversations about the real experiences of church leadership.

 Discernment and Communal Decision Making with Revs. J. P. Kang (Japanese Presbyterian Church) and Heather James.

Much of the session’s work is making decisions, big and small. How do you arrive at a consensus? And what if you can’t?