01-15-2008, 09:27 PM
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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. | I find it very difficult to believe that a PCA church would be allowed to institute term limits. That means an elder would be required to retire after a certain number of years of service and wouldn't be allowed to serve as elder again. | Not term limits in the way that the President is limited but a rotation system.
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Beware of a religion without holdfasts. But if I get a grip upon a doctrine they call me a bigot. Let them do so. Bigotry is a hateful thing, and yet that which is now abused as bigotry is a great virtue, and greatly needed in these frivolous times. I have been inclined lately to start a new denomination, and call it "the Church of the Bigoted." Spurgeon
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