Biblical Messages

ELDERSHIP: WHAT IT TAKES – 2. Vision

Proverbs 29.18 says, “When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild.  But whoever obeys the law is joyful” (NLT).  The old King James Version says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”  Vision – divine guidance, at its root – is key to church life, and especially to the leaders of the church.  In this series, where we’re focusing on what it takes to be a ruling elder, we had a conversation with Donna Marchand, one of the elders on the Session, and looked at the story of the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15.1-21 over the course of this message: