ELDERSHIP 1 PET. 5:1-5Sunday 16th February 2014

AS AN ELDER WILL YOU:

• Seek to grow in your gift of leadership to lead in grace and knowledge – giving yourself first to the Lord and then to the church?

• Model a lifestyle of Jesus as an under-shepherd of this flock, in humility and servanthood releasing, in unity, the whole body?

• Oversee the flock and encourage the struggler and the weak and timid as well as fighting off wolves and bringing discipline?

AS AN ELDER WILL YOU:

• In good times and bad to set the flock an example in faith, love and purity, to feed and nourish these sheep to God given maturity?

• Resist leadership by consensus or control, leadership that seeks to gain material wealth or has man-pleasing at its centre?

AS AN ELDER WILL YOU:

• Work as part of a team, honouring one another, and releasing each other, including following your lead elder’s lead?

• Will you live in the light of “two days”: – This day – giving yourself to

lead this church?– That day – when the chief

shepherd appears and you receive a crown that will never fade?

Questions or comments? Feel free to email Andrew: alawrence@citygatechurch.net

ELDERSHIP

Sunday 16th February 2014