{"id":53804,"date":"2022-09-30T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53804"},"modified":"2022-11-02T01:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:19:44","slug":"how-to-have-a-well-run-elders-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53804","title":{"rendered":"How to Have a Well-Run Elders\u2019 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\">COVID-19<span data-contrast=\"none\"> changed the way businesses operate. Instead of fighting traffic, sitting in a cubicle, and discussing politics around the water cooler, a growing number of employees push away their Cheerios bowl, pull out their laptop, and work from home. This change comes with risks like lower morale and increased loneliness. However, few object to fewer meetings<span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">; <span data-contrast=\"none\">boardrooms are seen as spaces where productivity goes to die.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Even as leadership teams in the business world meet less and less, I see the value of church elders regularly being in the same room as they think and pray about the<span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ir<span data-contrast=\"none\"> church<span data-contrast=\"none\">. In fact, <span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">besides<span data-contrast=\"none\"> the gatherings of our whole church, the most important meeting I attend is our bi-weekly<span data-contrast=\"none\"> elders<span aria-label=\"Rich text content control\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2019<span data-contrast=\"none\"> meeting. Every other Thursday night, we convene to pray for church members, discuss urgent shepherding matters, and oversee the affairs of the congregation.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">What can we do to make these meetings excellent? The Bible offers no specific guidance on how to have a well-run elders<span aria-label=\"Rich text<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can we do to make elders&#8217; meetings excellent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"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-53804","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\/53804","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53806,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53804\/revisions\/53806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}