tfelice
Puritan Board Freshman
This question would be primarily for those who are Baptists and/or Independents.
I am in the early stages of a pioneer church plant in Central PA. I would be serving as the "Executive Pastor" handling all the administrative aspects of the ministry, and a friend of mine (who is presently a Youth Pastor) would come on board as the Senior Pastor. We would be independent and likely align ourselves eventually with one of the Reformed Baptist fellowships.
The questions that came up the other night when we were going over the plans for the church plant were regarding the process by which we become elders within this new church. Since this church will be formed from within a core group, does the core group elect us as the elders? If so how do they become members and at what point. Or does the office of elder somehow become appointed to us from a church that is overseeing our startup work?Also, since neither one of us is presently ordained, who does the ordaining?
A lot of this was merely out of curiosity in the process as we are quite a ways from all this falling into place, but I wanted to see if anyone would have any insights on this.
Thanks
I am in the early stages of a pioneer church plant in Central PA. I would be serving as the "Executive Pastor" handling all the administrative aspects of the ministry, and a friend of mine (who is presently a Youth Pastor) would come on board as the Senior Pastor. We would be independent and likely align ourselves eventually with one of the Reformed Baptist fellowships.
The questions that came up the other night when we were going over the plans for the church plant were regarding the process by which we become elders within this new church. Since this church will be formed from within a core group, does the core group elect us as the elders? If so how do they become members and at what point. Or does the office of elder somehow become appointed to us from a church that is overseeing our startup work?Also, since neither one of us is presently ordained, who does the ordaining?
A lot of this was merely out of curiosity in the process as we are quite a ways from all this falling into place, but I wanted to see if anyone would have any insights on this.
Thanks