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    Eldership is the biblical office of spiritual oversight in the local church, where mature believers shepherd, teach, and lead God's flock under the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ.

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    Eldership is the biblical office of spiritual oversight in the local church, where mature believers shepherd, teach, and lead God's flock under the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ.

    "And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church... Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." Acts 20:17, 28 (KJV)

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    The Scriptures below are gathered specifically to address "What Is Eldership in the Bible?" Each is quoted in the King James Version with a link to its full chapter.

    "And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church... Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."
    "This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach... Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil."
    "The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."

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