{"id":53807,"date":"2022-09-30T10:26:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53807"},"modified":"2022-11-02T01:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:19:46","slug":"how-to-use-a-care-list-in-elders-and-members-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53807","title":{"rendered":"How To Use a Care List in Elders\u2019 and Members\u2019 Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Local churches should prioritize vine work (people) over trellis work (programs). Trellises exist to support the vine. People, not programs, are the mission. But if we\u2019re honest, it often feels like trellis issues dominate our time, especially in elders\u2019 and members\u2019 meetings.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">How do we work against that?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">There are many ways, and one of them is to use something called a \u201ccare list.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">WHAT IS A CARE LIST?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">A care list is an administrative tool that serves elders and church members in caring for weak, hurting, and straying sheep. It is comprised of members who are experiencing an acute need or are found in unrepentant sin. There\u2019s a private version of the list seen only by the elders, and there\u2019s a public version of the list that would be known to the whole congregation.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">When the public version is used as a church discipline tool, it offers a formal way to obey Jesus\u2019s command to \u201ctell it to the church\u201d (Matthew\u202f18:17), while then providing a space of time to elapse before the final step of \u201ctreat[ing] them as a Gentile and a tax collector\u201d (Matthew\u202f18:17). At every<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A care list engages the whole church in both corrective discipline and caring for the weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"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-53807","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\/53807","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\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53809,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53807\/revisions\/53809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}