NextLevel Online: Healthy Elders & Deacons

Session 4: Responsibilities of Elders

What are the primary responsibilities of our elders?



Classroom

Classroom Instructions

Lesson
Materials: Lesson Outline
Leader

  • Elders

  • Overseers

  • Shepherds

  • Discipleship (Matthew 28:18-20)

  • Teachers (healthy doctrine)

    • 1 Timothy 3:2
    • 1 Timothy 5:17-18
    • Titus 1:9

  • Guard the church from unhealthy teaching (false teaching)

    • Titus 1:9
    • Acts 20:27-31

  • Prayer for the sick

    • James 5:14

Discussion Questions:

  • What are the primary responsibilities of our elders? Where do they spend the majority of their time and energy?

  • Do these primary responsibilities match up with those found in the Bible?

About NextLevel Online

The vision of Ozark Christian College is to glorify God by evangelizing the lost and edifying Christians worldwide. The mission of Ozark Christian College is to train men and women for Christian service as a degree-granting institution of biblical higher education.