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Originally Posted by Puritan Sailor  I heard of a PCA church today that instituted term limits basically because the session (which was large) refused to discipline its own deficient elders. So the people took matters into their own hands and instituted a rotation system. Ideally, elders who aren't doing their job should be confronted. But many people won't do that out of fear. The rotation system was used instead to deal with the bad elders.
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This is precisely the explanation that S. Lewis Johnson (who was once a Presbyterian) gave in the lecture I listened to. I don't know that this is the reason for it in every case, but it seems plausible. Of course a rotation system doesn't really deal with bad elders if they are simply rotated back on in a few years, it just gets rid of them for a while.