Quotes About Elders In The Church

#1. it seems best to view deacons as servants who do whatever is necessary to allow the elders to accomplish their God-given calling of shepherding and teaching the church.

Matt Schmucker

#2. Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

Thomas Haden Church

#3. Pastors, elders, and members often misinterpret the church through business and organizational lenses.

Jeramie Rinne

#4. A lesson church leaders need to learn is that relationships must not be neglected.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#5. Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

William Brewster

#6. Elders of the Creedish church made celibacy sound as easy as choosing not to play basketball.
Just say no.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Mahavira

#8. Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

Bruce Campbell

#9. In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

Brigham Young

#10. Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Maria Montessori

#11. It's called a repository spell. Makes something bigger on the inside than on the outside. Works great for bags, barrels, hats, just about anything really, even a 1963 police box.

Chuck

#12. (Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

Larry Eskridge

#13. If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments ... ?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#14. In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

Richard M. Nixon

#15. She jus' goes 'round spittin' vinegar all the time. Makes me wonder what the good Lord'll say 'bout it, her supposin' to be one a' the church elders." "That's

Leisha Kelly

#16. The main task of pastoral ministry, according to Paul's address to the Ephesian elders, is not the quantitative growth of the church, but the maturity of the believers.

Eckhard J. Schnabel