{"id":53754,"date":"2022-09-30T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53754"},"modified":"2022-11-02T01:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:03:20","slug":"evaluating-how-an-elder-is-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53754","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating How an Elder Is Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">How do you conduct a job performance review for the elders (particularly the paid staff elders)? In other words, how do you determine if an elder is \u201cruling well\u201d?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Before a man is considered for the office of an elder, he must be evaluated in light of the qualifications found in 1\u202fTimothy\u202f3 and Titus\u202f1. But then what? Is that it? Is there anything in Scripture that suggests ongoing evaluation and encouragement for more effective ministry? Yes.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201c<span data-contrast=\"none\">Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching<span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d (1\u202fTim.\u202f5:17).<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">To consider an elder worthy of double honor, he must rule well. Paul\u2019s admonition indicates an evaluation process that determines whether he\u2019s doing this or not. Okay .\u202f.\u202f. But how? How can elders help one another \u201crule well\u201d? How can a congregation know that its elders are serious about improving as elders?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Over the years, we\u2019ve tried many ways to do \u201cjob performance evaluations,\u201d particularly for our staff elders. And I\u2019m serious when I say <span data-contrast=\"none\">many<span data-contrast=\"none\">. Our efforts mostly returned empty. Sometimes, the process was so ponderous and frustrating that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you conduct a job performance review for the elders (particularly the paid staff elders)? In other words, how do you determine if an elder is \u201cruling well\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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-53754","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\/53754","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53756,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53754\/revisions\/53756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}