How the Lord Provides Elders
Numbers 11:16-30, Titus 1:1-9
Halifax: 16 Dec 2018, 10:30 am

We are at a time in the life of our congregation when we need more elders.
- For this cause, the session has asked you for nominations for elders and we have received quite a few.
- Since this is an important matter in the life of our congregation, I have taken a break from our regular sermon series in Mark to preach about church government by elders.

I have decided to follow this order:
- First, to show you from Scripture that Christ has appointed government by elders in His church. We did that last week.
- Second, (our subject for this week) to show you from Scripture how elders are to be chosen by the church.
- Third, to show you what the work of the elder entails (planned for next week).

Let me begin today by reminding you of what we looked at last week.
- Last week, I showed you that Christ is the Head of the church.
- And that He has appointed that His people should be governed by a body of elders (a presbytery) at every level (local, regional, national).
- I showed you that this is clearly the government established by the apostles in the New Testament for us to follow.

But now we must move on to our topic for today about church government.
- How are we to get our elders?
- How are they put into their office in the church?