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How Are Elders Nominated?
Nominating Committees
What's wrong with the Nominating Committee?
- The most serious practical deficiency of most nominating committees
is that the primary criteria for placement on the nominating committee is
demographic data, not spiritual maturity or biblical knowledge.
- It is often objected that demographic representation and spiritual maturity
need not be mutually exclusive attributes of a nominating committee.
This is a formally true proposition.
- But the reality of most nominating committees is that few of the people
around the table understand the qualifications for eldership, know the
questions to ask in order to discern their presence or absence, or have
the courage to nominate someone who meets the biblical requirements but
may not be outwardly successful in other popular but peripheral areas.
- The most serious biblical deficiency of the nominating committee
concept is that nominating future leaders is a function of spiritual oversight
- a responsibility that belongs to the current elders themselves. Sheep
don't choose their shepherds.
- The result of error here is often that a successful businessman is
nominated and appointed as an elder or deacon, yet with serious sin beneath
the surface that biblically disqualifies him from serving.
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