Author: Tim Challies

No man should become an elder who is not willing to be an elder, and no man should become an elder who is not qualified to be an elder. A man must be willing to take up the task and he must be qualified to do so. A church has no business cajoling a man into service who does not want it and no business affirming a man into service who is not suited for it.See AlsoWe Need Qualified LeadershipWho Are You When Only Your Family Is Looking?5 Ugly Qualities of the Anti-Elder

Sometimes in life we puzzle over God’s will for us. Sometimes we have to make momentous decisions that may alter the course of our lives and the course of other people’s. In those moments we may scour the Bible looking for something, anything, to direct our way; something, anything, to give us confidence that we know and can do the will of God.See AlsoHow God Speaks To Us TodayThe Essential: HolinessReading Classics Together: The Holiness of God (II)