Your elders read a book together entitled The Deliberate Church by Mark Dever, subtitled building your ministry on the gospel.
We really enjoyed it. It was filled with great points like this one –
2 Timothy 4:2 and 2 Timothy 3:17
Timothy did not need the latest rhetorical techniques, business practices, or creative ministry models based on captivating metaphors. He simply needed to be guided, governed and geared by the Word of God.
In whatever we do, we want to be careful about allowing God’s Word to set our trajectory and power our progress. From our preaching and evangelism, to the way we take in new members, from the structure of our Sunday morning services, all the way down to the agenda at our elder’s meetings we want our procedures to reflect reliance on the biblical gospel and awareness of its implications for our corporate life together.
This is the commitment of the leadership.
What about each and every one of us?