Elders focus on Jesus and his mission and equip and lead the church to do the same.
Elders have the overarching responsibility to focus on Jesus and his mission in the context of the local people of God and through their sibling relationship. Under this responsibility, there are three areas of focus. (1) Elders wrestle together by the Spirit to discern and describe what it looks like to be the church as this particular local congregation. (2) Elders lead, feed, and protect the saints and this local congregation so that the saints might carry out the ministry and mission of God both as the church and as individual Christians. (3) Elders, as a body, model before the congregation what it looks like to be the people of God and siblings and Jesus. As individuals, elders model before the saints and attenders what it looks like to be a saved-by-grace Jesus follower.
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