{"id":1650,"date":"2023-01-27T09:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2023-01-27T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T17:23:29","slug":"where-are-you-being-an-elder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/where-are-you-being-an-elder\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are you being an elder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion question for February 3, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The disciples appointed elders in every church (Acts 14:23), Paul instructed Timothy to appoint elders (2 Tim 2:2), and Titus to appoint elders in every town (Titus 1:5).\u00a0 What do you understand the role of elder to be?\u00a0 Who have been your elder role models?\u00a0 What are the qualifications for elder, and how well do you meet them?\u00a0 When and where do you act as an elder?\u00a0 What gets in the way of acting in this role for you?\u00a0 How can God raise up more elders for His kingdom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for February 3, 2023. The disciples appointed elders in every church (Acts 14:23), Paul instructed Timothy to appoint elders (2 Tim 2:2), and Titus to appoint elders in every town (Titus 1:5).\u00a0 What do you understand the role of elder to be?\u00a0 Who have been your elder role models?\u00a0 What are the qualifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}