Effective Elders – Allegheny District & GLD Elders Training Retreat

Effective Elders

Rick Thompson – GLD Superintendent

 

 

Acts 20:13-18 – First elders retreat

 

An Effective Elder:

• Leads God's People v. 18-19, 28
  
  • 2 Best Books on Leadership
    
    • Peter Drucker
      
    • Jim Collins – Good to Great
      
    • Spiritual Leadership – Sanders
      
    • Unity Factor – Osborn
      
    • Sticky Church – Osborn
      
    • Taking Your Church to the Next Level – Gary McIntosh
      
    • One Size Doesn't Fit All – McIntosh
      
    • Wild Goose Chase – Mark Batterson
      
  • Most commonly repeated word in this passage – "I" 20 times in the passage…
    
    • Lead by example
      
    • Close emotionally attached relationship with the people
      

      
       

• Bleeds for God's People – tears 3x in the passage
  
  • Really care for God's people
    
  • Can't be out of touch with the people
    
• Feeds God's Flock
  
  • V. 20 – preached everything helpful…publicly and house to house.
    
  • V. 32 – committed them to God's Word
    
  • Titus 1:9 – holds firmly to the message…encourage others by sound doctrine
    
  • 2 voices – one to gather the sheep, and the other to frighten away the wolves
    
• Seeks Lost Lambs v. 21- "I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus."
  
• Heeds for God's Flock – v. 28-31…"Keep watch over yourselves…be on your guard."
  
  • Catfish – Catfish chasing the codfish actually kept the codfish fresh…sometimes the catfish in our tanks are good for us.
    
  • Dragons – well intended (Doug Marshall) but burn everyone around them
    
  • Wolves – Distort the truth, Divide the flock…self-willed person
    
• Intercede for God's Flock – Exodus 18:17-18