Comments on: An Elders’ Checklist https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/09/30/an-elders-checklist/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Top 10 Books For Elders https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/09/30/an-elders-checklist/#comment-47682 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:03:28 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19094#comment-47682 […] on from my articles on eldership (here and here), today I’m listing my Top 10 Books for Elders, with the recommendation that elders read at […]

]]> By: John Larson https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/09/30/an-elders-checklist/#comment-46950 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:53:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19094#comment-46950 Thanks so much! Would you be willing to make the preaching review form available? I’m trying to take the Dickson material, as well as your checklist, and tailor it to fit the needs of our session & congregation. Thanks again.

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]]> By: Web Slinging 10.8.14 | PATALDRIDGE.COM https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/09/30/an-elders-checklist/#comment-46618 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:48:58 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19094#comment-46618 […] Murray had a post on his blog about what an elder should be doing. He bases his checklist on David Dickson’s book The Elder and his Work. If […]

]]> By: October 4, 2014: Truth2Freedom Daily Headline Alerts | Truth2Freedom's Blog https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/09/30/an-elders-checklist/#comment-46596 Sat, 04 Oct 2014 17:56:43 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19094#comment-46596 […] Murray provides a challenging elders’ checklist, with extensive […]

]]> By: Dan Sudfeld https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/09/30/an-elders-checklist/#comment-46576 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:12:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19094#comment-46576 Very helpful. Thank for sharing this.

]]> By: Flora Compton https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/09/30/an-elders-checklist/#comment-46575 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:39:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19094#comment-46575 That is an excellent check-list and how interesting that the classic on the elder-ship was written by a Free Church of Scotland minister. It has been my observation that churches of Dutch, Reformed back-ground, function much better than the Scottish churches, in this area of the role of elders. They are generally numerically stronger these days so this makes a difference, I suppose. A godly, elderly Free Church woman,in Toronto told me that she had asked a minister why some men, with none of the Biblical qualifications ,were being made elders and the response was, ‘when you don’t have stones,you use rubble”.

It’s off topic but I am genuinely interested in the role of assessor elders. Is their function merely to make up a quorum at Session meetings? Can they function in any of the areas you mention to a people they have never met and in some cases are on a different continent? Can a group of people with no local elders rightly be called a congregation? These are questions that trouble others as well as myself and I would be very interested in your response.

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