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Our Responsibilities Toward Elders

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Have respect for God’s arrangement.
  • Acts 14:23
  • Titus 1:4-5
  • Acts 6:3
  • The local church should follow the elders, not whoever complains the loudest.
  • Hebrews 13:17
    • Esteem them highly.
    • Hebrews 13:17
    • I Thessalonians 5:12-13
    • I Peter 5:1-5
      • Take responsibility instead of just blaming the elders.
      • I Thessalonians 5:14 – Brethren are the ones being urged to action here – not just elders.
        • Remember that they are humans, not superhumans.
        • I Timothy 3:2-7
        • Titus 1:5-9
        • We must be careful to not be too lenient or too strict with God’s qualifications for elders. After the many mistakes that Peter made, he was an elder!
        • I Timothy 5:17-22
          • Free up the shepherds to shepherd.
          • I Timothy 3:8-13 – Qualifications for deacons.
          • Acts 6:2-6 – Were these men deacons? It’s not clear. Either way, their job was to free up the apostles to do their work.
          • Not just deacons but all members should do their part to serve.
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