I was sixteen years old at my first job interview. I sat across the table from the McDonald\u2019s manager, awkwardly eating my free meal which I had shamelessly accepted. He struggled to find questions to ask as I stared at him, putting yet another golden French fry in my mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s your work experience?\u201d \u201cOne week at a carnival.\u201d \u201cAre you pretty good about showing up on time?\u201d \u201cNo, but I think I could be.\u201d \u201cHow would your friends describe you? \u201cI play basketball and am a pretty nice guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
He hired me on the spot.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve often thought job interviews are mostly pointless. What can I possibly find out about an individual in 30 minutes?<\/p>\n
Okay, so what about elder interviews? Are they also pointless? Can I sit down with a man and interview him on 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 and have any clue as to whether or not he\u2019s qualified? If not, how can we be confident that a man makes the cut?<\/p>\n
As a local church, we have an advantage McDonald\u2019s didn\u2019t have\u2014we spend time with people. We spend years with them. We watch them. We pray for them. We weep with them. We<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Find the men in your church who are already eldering. Get to know them and, as you do, keep 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 in mind. Once you\u2019re reasonably confident this man ought to be an elder, I recommend a process of formal evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-53727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53729,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53727\/revisions\/53729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}