Nov

12

2009

Justin Taylor|12:00 am CT

Effective Elder Meetings

Jim Ellif offers some good thoughts on how to make elders’ meetings more effective. Main points highlighted below; go to his post to see each point explained.

  1. Plan for meeting together more often and for a longer period of time.
  2. Challenge each other spiritually.
  3. Discuss the state of the flock.
  4. Have an agenda.
  5. Actually pray for individuals and issues being faced.
  6. Study together toward a unified position on difficult issues.
  7. Make these meetings non-optional.

I have not read Alexander Strauch’s book on this topic–Meetings That Work: A Guide to Effective Elders’ Meetings–but Strauch is an excellent teacher and thinker, and I’m sure it’d be worth consulting.

HT: Challies

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3 Comments

  1. Kevin
    November 12, 2009 at 5:12 am

    Strauch’s book is quite helpful, short and concise and yet meaty, and even biblical (I know that sounds strange, but most books on business efficiency are far from biblical). I’d highly commend it to you.

  2. Paul
    November 12, 2009 at 7:45 am

    Interesting that I suggested these very things at an elder meeting and was shot down on all but #4. Recommend that nominating elders who agree to the entire list is on the list ‘->

  3. Lee Dyck
    November 12, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Thanks for this Justin. Here is a link to a summary sheet of Strauch’s book: http://www.lewisandroth.com/docs/EffectiveElderMeetings.pdf

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