{"id":8470,"date":"2019-09-16T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:56:23","slug":"choosing-church-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8470","title":{"rendered":"CHOOSING CHURCH ELDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After many struggles years ago to have a serious and sustained conversation about the qualifications for elders, I decided there was a better approach to finding qualified people to serve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I now\u00a0 encourage everyone to focus first on the<em> function<\/em> of an elder rather than the <em>qualifications<\/em>. I am very committed to the qualifications, but have found it much more fruitful to get everyone to agree that the three main things elders are and do encompass a life of prayer, commitment to the Word of God, and proving to be examples to the flock (see Acts 6:4; I Pet. 5:1-3).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These three bring much more clarity as to who is truly qualified!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many struggles years ago to have a serious and sustained conversation about the qualifications for elders, I decided there was a better approach to finding qualified people to serve. I now\u00a0 encourage everyone to focus first on the function of an elder rather than the qualifications. I am very committed to the qualifications, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8473,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}