Quotes about Elders

Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.

Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

Church leaders—including pastoral staff, elders, deacons, and leadership teams—must see community as a biblical nonnegotiable, an essential for transformation, a necessity for building lives that stand the test of time.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Another word found in Strong's Concordance for prophetic impartation is nabiy', which as we have already seen, is the action of "flowing forth," or "bubbling forth like a fountain." This perfectly describes the inspirational gift of prophecy we see so often in meetings, particularly in a setting of a plurality of elders and seasoned, gifted individuals working together as a coordinated team—the "prophetic presbytery" (see 1 Tim. 4:14).

No civilization has ever survived unless the elders saw it their duty to pass on gifts of Spirit to the young ones.

No civilization has ever survived unless the elders saw it their duty to pass on gifts of Spirit to the young ones. Is it that we are selfish, or is it that we ourselves have never found the gift ourselves? I suspect it is largely the latter. I don't think most people are terribly selfish. They just don't know.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.